How to open a WD Elements USB2 External Drive
DaleYou carefully lever the bottom of the case, out of the case. Here are a couple of photos which demonstrate this: After I got the case open, I was impressed…
“… concerned about the heating of external drives …”
“I'm concerned about the heating of external drives because many of these little enclosures provide no active air flow across the drive.”, opines Steve Gibson. And in the field of…
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 -…
Western Digital “My Passport” drive? It sucks.
Had to open the case on my Western Digital “My Passport” drive tonight. You might remember, that I talked about the drive previously. Well the drive sucks, and here’s the…
The Western Digital “My Passport” External Drive
Update: Thinking of buying one? Don't, they suck. The Western Digital “My Digital” External Hard Drive pictured right, is my latest IT purchase. The reason I went for a WD…
“Can you tell me whether the drive inside this newer FreeAgent Go is SATA or IDE?”
That will be yes, which is what I answered in the comments. In particular, my FreeAgent Go drives have the following SATA drives in them: Model SATA Drive Name Drive…
“Don’t drop it on the floor.”
On Friday, I blogged about opening the Seagate FreeAgent external drive. The reason I had to open the drive up, was that I dropped it on the floor, and it…
How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Go External Drive.
(very carefully) Step 0 – read all these instructions before trying this yourself. In particular, you can probably get away with removing the top cover only. Step 1 – using…
Auslogics Disk Defrag – a 5 minute review.
Does not defragment removable drives, even though Windows built-in defragger does. No choice to do an Analyse first, it was straight into Defrag. No PC slowdown noticed. Does a through…
How to open the Seagate FreeAgent Classic
This is the FreeAgent Classic. My one is a 160GB external drive. Step 1 – using a BLUNT object, such as a thin screwdriver, slide it along the front of…