WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company,  and world leader in storage solutions, today introduced the new, redesigned My  Passport® Ultra portable hard drives and My Passport for Mac drives.  With the My Passport line now in its 7th generation, the My Passport  Ultra and My Passport for Mac portable hard drives are now available in capacities  up to 3 TB¹ and  in four stylish colors² - Classic  Black, Brilliant White, Wild Berry and Noble Blue. WD is also introducing a new  optional accessory – WD Grip Pack – a soft band, available in a variety of  colors, which encircles the drive, offering consumers an easy way to  personalize their My Passport drives.

“With more photos being taken than ever  before, it’s critical to have a high capacity, reliable external storage  solution that you can carry everywhere,” said Tony Tate, general manager and vice  president of Content Storage Solutions at WD. “The latest generation My  Passport drives deliver an easier automatic back-up experience, hardware-based  encryption for security and higher capacities than ever before. Consumers can keep  all their content in their pockets, while expressing their personal styles with  the colors and WD Grip Pack.”

My Passport Ultra portable drives come in 3  TB, 2 TB, 1 TB and 500 GB capacities and feature 256-bit AES hardware encryption³ –  delivering a high level of security with no impact to write-speed or CPU activity.  If your My Passport Ultra falls into the wrong hands, the 256-bit AES hardware  encryption protects users’ files, folders, photos, videos and music with a  password known only to them. USB 3.0 compatibility provides fast data transfer  rates of up to 5 gigabits per second, while being backwardly compatible with  USB 2.0. My Passport for Mac portable drives are available in capacities of 3  TB, 2 TB, 1 TB and also feature 256-bit AES hardware encryption with USB 3.0  connectivity.

Sold separately, the WD Grip Pack accessory  for My Passport Ultra is available in five colors (smoke, slate, grape, sky and  fuchsia) and, when wrapped around one of the four colors of My Passport Ultra  drives, enables consumers to create a total of twenty possible color combinations.  The WD Grip Pack comes with a color-matched 18-inch flat USB 3.0 cable, creating  a stylish complete solution.

My Passport Ultra’s built-in WD Backup  software is a simple-to-use application with focus on reducing frustration when  setting up a backup plan to preserve data. Since 31% of devices have had  malware at some point, having your data safely backed up onto a secondary  device like a My Passport drive is critical to preserving precious data.

Pricing  and Availability
My Passport Ultra and My Passport for Mac portable drives are available today in the  WD store at wdstore.com and at select  retailers, including Amazon (My Passport Ultra: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W8XXRPM, My Passport Ultra  for Mac: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WJOVDYM) and distributors.  My Passport Ultra and My Passport for Mac have a Manufacturer’s Suggest Retail  Price (MSRP) ranging from $79.99 up to $199.99 depending on capacity (3 TB  capacity available next month). Both the My Passport Ultra and My Passport for  Mac will offer a 3-year limited warranty. Terms and conditions of WD’s limited  warranty may be found at support.wdc.com/warranty. WD Grip  Pack accessories will be available in June and will have an MSRP of $12.99.