Western Digital Essential NetCenter 160GB Hard Drive, 7200RPM, External, RJ-45 / USB 2.0

Connect the NetCenter external hard drive to your wired or wireless network to centralize and share pictures, video music, files. Print from any computer on the network. Installation of the NetCenter external hard drive is simple with the WD NetCenter wizard and EasyLink™ utility that sets up the WD NetCenter hard drive as a local drive on any Macintosh® computer or PC. Includes EMC® Retrospect® Express backup and system recovery software -- Easy-to-use and powerful, this backup software includes features such as full system backup and restore, point-in-time restores, file-by-file backup, easy scheduling, encryption, and backup virus protection.

Western Digital Essential NetCenter External Hard Drive Features:

EMC® Retrospect® Express backup and system recovery software.

Includes WD's EasyLink utility to set up WD NetCenter as a local drive on any computer on the network.

Capacities up to 500 GB.

Fast 7200 RPM, 8 MB or 16 MB cache hard drive.

Reliable, cool, quiet operation without a fan.

10/100 Base-T Ethernet connection.

Uses Common Internet File System (CIFS) for platform-independent file sharing.

Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) client for automatic assignment of TCP/IP addresses.

S.M.A.R.T. monitoring of data on the WD NetCenter hard drive.

Automatic power management when the WD NetCenter drive is idle.

Kensington security lock connection