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Disk drive format, Physical description, Power/activity led – Western Digital My Book Studio (USB 3.0) User Manual User Manual

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MY BOOK STUDIO

USER MANUAL

ABOUT YOUR WD DRIVE

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Disk Drive Format

Your My Book Studio drive is preformatted as a single HFS+J partition for Mac OS X
operating systems. If you want to use this drive with a Windows system, see
“Reformatting the Drive” on page 28 and “Troubleshooting” on page 29.

Physical Description

As shown in Figure 2, the My Book Studio drive has:

• A power/activity indicator on the front

• The power connector, interface port, and a security slot on the back

Power/Activity LED

The power/activity LED shows the drive’s power state and activity as follows:

USB 3.0 Interface

Super-Speed USB 3.0 supports data transfer rates up to 5 Gb/s. USB 3.0 is backward-
compatible with USB 2.0. Connection to a USB 2.0 port transfers data at the port
speed—up to 480 Mb/s.

LED Appearance

Power State/Activity

On steady

Idle

Fast flashing, approximately 3 times per second

Activity

Slow flashing, approximately every 2.5 seconds

System standby

Figure 2. My Book Studio Drive

Power/Activity LED

Security Slot

USB 3.0

Power Connector