How to open the Western Digital “My Passport” Drive.

Step 1. Don’t bother.  As there are “user serviceable parts inside.”
Step 2. Well if you insist on opening this piece of crud, the actual steps follow.

Step 1

- using a blunt, thin object (say a small screwdriver), slide it along the gap between the “body” and the “case”.
- work the screwdriver around the edge.

Step 2

- slide the body away from the case

Step 2a

(the drive separated from the case)

Step 3

Drive details

Model: WD5000BMVU-11A08S0
Why I don’t like it?: It was a SATA drive which Western Digital has grafted a permanent USB interface.  It sucks.

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