My Book hard drives originally included vent holes at the top of the device that spelled out messages in Morse code. My Book hard drives are designed to look visually like a black hardcover book, though the Pro/Studio series drives are silver and the World Series drives are white.
The WD logo is placed in the center of the hard drive’s front face and includes a black body with a textured lower-half and a shiny upper-half. The My Book hard drive includes USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports to connect to most devices like computers and tablets. Password protection can be enabled on the My Book hard drive. The hard drive features built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption with WD Security tools that are designed to keep content secure. So here you go, the steps required to disassemble a new-style Western Digital My Book drive enclosure. Unfortunately, this wasn’t an obvious process and this excellent article by Scott Cramer didn’t apply to the newer version (1 TB drive) enclosure I have. About two months ago both WD 2TB Books froze. 1x 1TB Book HD, 2x 2TB Book HD and 2x HDMI Media Players. The USB and power plug are half way covered by the case meaning they were not correctly mounted inside the case. 4 months apart, both had case/connector alignment problems.
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The My Book hard drive includes Western Digital Backup software for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for MAC and is designed to back up photos, videos, music, and documents. I recently needed to removed the drive from a Western Digital My Book External USB/eSATA drive enclosure. WD My Book Essential 2 TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive.
Western Digital (WD) is an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company based in San Jose, CA. The My Book was available with between 80 GB and 1 TB of data storage. There are nine series of My Book drives including the Essential Edition, Home Edition, Office Edition, Pro Edition, and World Edition. The My Book external hard drives have varying capacities, depending on the edition and model. My Book by Western Digital is a series of portable external hard drives.