Blog of Ian Parr » inside http://www.ianparr.com/blog Just another WordPress site Wed, 09 May 2012 16:37:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Inside the 2TB Western Digital My Book Essential http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2010/01/05/inside-the-2tb-western-digital-my-book-essential/ http://www.ianparr.com/blog/2010/01/05/inside-the-2tb-western-digital-my-book-essential/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:04:50 +0000 ian http://ianparr.com/blog/?p=279 Bought a couple of these from PCWorld for £139.97 each – pretty cheap for a 2TB unit – in fact, its cheaper than buying the bare internal drive unit alone.

Bit of a job to open the unit up but inside its fitted with the WD20EADS model. This is a single 2TB unit with 32MB cache, ‘green power’ and spins up to 5400RPM.

I’m pretty impressed with the unit as a whole – VERY quiet and good power saving mode where the unit seems to shut itself down completely when not in use.

Toms Hardware has a reasonable review of the unit HERE – although I disagree with their noise figures – my unit is almost silent.

The drive:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

Case opened:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

USB to SATA interface PCB:
WD 2TB My Book Essential internals

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