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Western Digital adds FireWire 800 to Mac-optimized portable drives

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Computing | by Stephen Schenck | Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:24PM | 0 comments

Western Digital's added high-speed FireWire 800 ports to its portable MyPassport Studio drives, which already had FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 support. You can power one of the disks, available up to 500GB, straight from its data cable, so there's no need to tote along a power adapter, like you would with a larger external hard disk. The line is optimized for Mac users, already formatted in HFS+, and includes drivers for a Mac-only "turbo mode". If you're thinking of picking one up, double-check your Mac first; Apple removed the FireWire ports from its latest MacBook revisions.

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external link FireWire 800 now part of Western Digital My… [CrunchGear]
external link My Passport Studio Hard Drive Adds FW 800 [PC World Latest Technology News]
external link WD adds FireWire 800 to Mac external hard… [Crave: The gadget blog]
external link WD adds Firewire 800 to Mac-friendly hard… [Register Hardware - News]
external link WD My Passport Studio drives get FireWire… [Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks]
external link WD(R) Speeds Up My Passport(TM) Studio(TM)… [PR Newswire for Journalists: Consumer Electronics News]
external link Western Digital My Passport Studio Drive now… [SlashGear]
external link Western Digital Upgrades Pocket Hard Drive… [Wired: Gadget Lab]

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Apple, Western Digital
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USB 2.0, Firewire 800, Firewire 400, HFS+
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Apple MacBook, Western Digital My Passport

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