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MY PASSPORT FOR MAC

USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING THE DRIVE – 20

On the WD Drive Utilities Drive Settings screen:

Checking Drive Health

The WD Drive Utilities software provides three diagnostic tools to help make sure that

your drive is performing well. Run the following tests if you are concerned that your drive

is not operating properly:

• S.M.A.R.T. Status

S.M.A.R.T. is a failure-prediction function that continuously monitors key internal

performance attributes of the drive. A detected increase in drive temperature,

noise, or read/write errors, for example, can provide an indication that the drive is

approaching a serious failure condition. With advanced warning, you could take

precautionary measures, like moving your data to another drive, before a failure

occurs.

The result of a S.M.A.R.T. status check is a pass or fail evaluation of the drive's

condition.

• Quick Drive Test

Your My Passport drive has a built-in Data Lifeguard diagnostic utility that tests

the drive for error conditions. The quick drive test checks the drive for major

performance problems.

The result of a quick drive test is a pass or fail evaluation of the drive's condition.

• Complete Drive Test

The most comprehensive drive diagnostic is the complete drive test. It

methodically tests every sector for error conditions, and inserts bad sector

markers as required.

The best time to run the drive diagnostics and status checks is on a regular basis, before

you encounter any problems with your drive. And, because they are so fast, running the

quick S.M.A.R.T. status check and the quick drive test provides a high level of assurance

with minimal inconvenience. Then, run all three whenever you encounter disk error

conditions when writing or accessing files.

To run drive diagnostics and status checks:

1. Click Go > Applications > WD Drive Utilities to display the WD Drive Utilities screen

(see Figure 4 on page 19).

2. If you have more than one supported My Passport drive connected to your

computer, select the one that you want to check.

IF you want to . . . THEN click . . . AND see . . .

Run drive diagnostics and status

checks,

Diagnostics “Checking Drive Health” in the

next section.

Specify an inactive time interval to

turn off your drive,

Sleep Timer “Setting the Drive Sleep Timer”

on page 21.

Erase your drive so you can retrieve

the space and start over,

Drive Erase “Erasing the Drive” on

page 22.

technical support during the

warranty period and keep up-to-

date on the latest WD products,

Registration “Registering the Drive” on

page 25.

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