Enhancing performance with wd +turbo – Western Digital My Book/My Book Essential (USB 3.0) User Manual User Manual
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USING THE DRIVE WITH A MAC
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7.
Depending on your computer’s operating system:
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Using Leopard or Snow Leopard, click Use as Backup Disk and skip to step 8.
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Using Lion or Mountain Lion:
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If you want to create a password to secure your backup files, select the
Encrypt Backup Disk check box and proceed to step a.
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If you do not want to create a password to encrypt your backup files, click Use
as Backup Disk and skip to step 8.
a. Click Use as Backup Disk and complete the backup password dialog that
displays:
b. Click Encrypt Disk and proceed to step 8.
8.
The My Book icon now displays as:
9.
Your My Book drive is now ready to use as an external storage device. You can
enhance its performance by installing the following software that is on the drive:
• WD +TURBO utility (see “Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO” in the next
section)
• WD SmartWare software (see “Installing the WD SmartWare Software” on
Enhancing Performance with WD +TURBO
WD +TURBO is a utility on the My Book drive that you can install to improve the
performance of the drive on a Mac computer.
If you are going to install the WD SmartWare software, you do not need to install the WD
+TURBO utility yourself—the WD SmartWare software will install it for you. If you are not
going to install the WD SmartWare software, install WD +TURBO to enhance the
performance of your My Book drive.