How to open a WD Elements USB2 External Drive
You 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…
You 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…
“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…
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 -…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
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…