When your internal hard drive is almost full your PC slows down. Do not delete files. Free up space on your internal hard drive by transferring files to your WD Elements portable hard drive and get your laptop moving again. With this single drive you get compatibility with the latest USB 3.0 devices and backward compatibility with USB 2.0 devices as well. When connected to a USB 3.0 port, WD Elements portable hard drive delivers fast data transfer rates.

For the hard drive to be able to be read and written to in both a PC and Mac computer, it must be formatted to ExFAT or FAT32 file format. WD Elements is pre-configured for usage on a Windows PC. Mac users need to re-format the drive to either EXFAT or HSF+J (for using it with Time Machine). Users can either use the Disk Utility app on their Mac or download the WD Drive Utilities software.