The 500GB My Passport Essential and other WD portable hard drives will now come in limited edition designs credited by the students at California State University, Long Beach’s Industrial Design program. These drives will come in Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf and Wave decorative patterns—targeting students with a flare for style. All HDD’s are compatible with Windows and features WD SmartWare software that offers a visual method to perform backups. Not only that, but other safety features include user-selected password protection combined with 256-bit hardware-based encryption. You can pick one of the five designs up for $119.99 a pop over at Western Digital.
