Western Digital My Passport 6TB - Black: USB-Powered HDD, Password Protected
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- Slim and durable design to help make your life on-the-go effortlessly convenient. Robust construction provides you with a reliable companion for your adventures.
- Unlock vast storage possibilities with up to 6TB capacity, providing plenty of space to carry your photos, videos, music, and important documents wherever life takes you - helping to keep everything securely within your grasp.
- Scheduling backups of your precious files made easier with the included Acronis True Image for Western Digital software. applications and protect your computer system against data loss caused by ransomware attacks.
- Help safeguard your files against unauthorized access at home or away. Use our included software to add an extra layer of security with password protection and built-in 256-bit AES encryption.
- We build our drives using tried and true components and provide a 3-year limited warranty for extra peace of mind.
- The enclosure of this drive is composed of more than 50% post-consumer recycled plastic. Packaging is made of over 50% post-consumer recycled pulp and is fully recyclable.
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Q: can it be reformatted to apple apfs drive formatting?
A: Hi, thanks for reaching out about Western Digital My Passport 6TB - Black: USB-Powered HDD, Password Protected Yes, a Western Digital My Passport 6TB can be formatted to APFS using a Mac's Disk Utility. However, since the My Passport is a traditional hard disk drive (HDD), this format is not recommended, and you should consider the performance trade-offs. If you have any additional questions, we welcome you to contact MyTGTtech at 833-848-8324 every day, between 7am-11pm CST.
submitted byJustin - 1 month agoTarget expert supportA: Hello, We are sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. Please be informed that the WD My Passport External drive comes preformatted in NTFS format for Windows OS, In order to use the drive for macOS you can reformat the drive with macOS supported APFS or HFS+, or both systems using exFAT file system by using this link: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/8200/ Please be informed that reformatting is a data destructive process, please backup the data from the drive before reformatting it. If you are facing any issues with the drive, please contact us at https://support-en.wd.com/app/ask/session/ we will be happy to assist you.
submitted byWestern Digital Team - 1 month agoBrand expert