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    What hard drive is in this external hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by sean473, Aug 24, 2009.

  1. sean473

    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    I was wondering what desktop hard drive there was in Western Digital's My Book Home edition?
     
    sean473, Aug 24, 2009
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Plug in your drive and go into Device Manager, or open up HD Tune and you can get the name of the drive model.
     
    namaiki, Aug 24, 2009
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    sean473 Notebook Prophet

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    LOL i know all that but it always comes out as WD My book... i wanna know what drive is inside the mybook.
     
    sean473, Aug 24, 2009
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    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    It's usually a 7200 RPM "Green" edition drive, but there's a lot of Mybook Home Editions, so you need to look up the model number.
     
    Lithus, Aug 24, 2009
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    I didn't know they could do that. My WD Elements drive always comes up as: WDC WD5000BEVT.
     
    namaiki, Aug 24, 2009
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    Slayer366 Notebook Consultant

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    They are also commonly SATA drives inside those My Books if that's what you mean.
     
    Slayer366, Aug 24, 2009
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    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    My 1TB My Book (Office, which just means it's silver and has a fancy light) has the 1TB Green in it. Not as fast as the Black in comparable setups, but not bad.
     
    gengerald, Aug 24, 2009
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