Designed to meet wd s demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and longterm reliability, we back up pun intended. Designed to meet wds demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and longterm reliability, we back up pun. Wd my book 4tb not recognized external drives for pc wd. Western digital my book 4 tb desktop hard drive, black. Western digital mybook elite external hard drives use. After hours researching and comparing all wd 4tb my book on the market, we find out the best wd 4tb my book of 2020 from amazon, homedepot, walmart, ebay. Oos wd mybook 2tb looks like easystore case mfg refurb. The western digital easystore is the most popular drive for shucking. In my case the wd duo enclosure went bad and while the drives were ok i had no way to read them.
Plus, wd has introduced a series of easytouse apps to increase the my. You are responsible for the contents of your comments and any consequences that may arise as a result of them. How to shuck an easystore drive and keep your warranty in order to shuck a western digital easystore, youll need a few things. Posted by paul braren on mar 30 2016 updated on aug 23 2017 in. Raid0 mode provides superfast performance with up to 360mbs2 sequential read speeds using the usb typec port. Raid0 mode provides superfast performance with up to 360mbs 2 sequential read speeds using the usb. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Fairly easy to shuck without breaking clips failed on my first one, but no clips broken on the other 7 there are 2 things to note with mybooks. At least, people were, as of up to a few months ago, shucking wd 8gb mybook desktop externals, to get their he8 drives out of them, and i. Millions of people around the world trust their data to my book desktop storage. Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external hdds. Certain model white drives are also thought to be immune from the sata 3.
Western digital mybook drive lock encryption failure and. Its about the same price for a regular external but i get a case which i am gonna use for a. How to get premium hard drives for cheap by shucking external drives. This is my second my book my first one is a 1 tb yes that old. How to open a western digital usb my book 4tb 6tb 8tb and 10tb. I have a new 4tb my book external drive that im ready to toss in the trash.
Shucking external drives to get at the red nas drives within tends to be much cheaper than buying internal drives directly. I purchased this after getting into digital photography and, unfortunately, after losing a lot of data on a portable hd which i dropped. As the picture shows, it is a wd nas redwhite label inside. This means that there is no way by looking at it wd can tell its been shucked. Equipped with social media and cloud storage import, password protection and perfectly paired with wd backup or time machine, my book desktop storage helps keep your files safe. How to decrypt a wd mybook drive after its removed from the. I recently picked up a wd mybook 8tb external usb drive with the intention of extracting the drive from the enclosure for use in our server and, not having found much about this model online. When you shuck, or remove, the internal disk from a western digital easystore external drive, youll find either a red label or a white label internal disk. I was able to shuck the drive from the enclosure and find a white label. The only negative i have noticed is that, since i used it with my alienware m17 laptop, it sits on my lapdesk and is quite prone to tipping when i move the lapdesk over to fast. Shucking a wd easystore and upgrading nas ethan wojcinski. Now it has password protection on in it and normaly.
How to remove shuck the hard drive from western digital. I have to manually unlock the drive every time i use it. How to shuck an easystore drive and keep your warranty in order to shuck. Liberate your western digital 8tb drive from its mybook. Its equipped with password protection to keep your files safe and works with dropbox so you can save. Its equipped with password protection to keep your files safe and works with dropbox so you can save your files to the cloud. We have some benchmarks and the scoop on the western digital 8tb drives found on newer 2016 western digital my book external drives. With the ftc giving some businesses 30 days to remove the illegal warranty void if removed stickers, im not sure broken clips on an external enclosure is a legitimate reason to deny a warranty claim. The wd my book desktop drive can be used to store your photos, videos, music, files and more. Western digital my book 8tb and my passport 4tb external. Preformatted ntfs for systems running windows 10, 8. Plus, wd has introduced a series of easytouse apps to increase the my book s. My wd my book 4tb ex disk has stoped being recognized by my latop.
In the example below, a western digital external 6tb hard disk drive is. All deals appear to be dead now currently out of stock but should ship when they come back in. Jan 26, 2017 looks like all new external wd drives have the controller board soldered onto the hd itself, and it is a usb connection, and there is no sata port at all. Password protection with hardware encryption the my book devices builtin 256bit aes hardware encryption with wd security software helps keep your content private and safe. Aug 16, 2019 hello my name is caner, i konw when you look up in the forms there is lots of theads about this problem but i clount find a similer problem as mine. I started this new thread to document some of the findings with these shuckable mybook drives. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. I just got two western digital 8tb easystore external drives in the mail today. Western digital has been selling these external storage devices with the highest storage capacity drives in their class for some time now the 3. Hello my name is caner, i konw when you look up in the forms there is lots of theads about this problem but i clount find a similer problem as mine. Western digital 4tb my book desktop external hard drive. A simple video explaining how to open a usb western digital wd 4tb 6tb 8tb and 10tb models, new model, just with a screwdriver. Switch to raid1 configuration for redundancy and to mirror data on the wd red drives inside. The inclusion of the wd discovery with this was a nice nice addition from my 4tb wd.
How to get premium hard drives for cheap by shucking. The equivalent specd wd red 8tb nas hard disk drive 5400 rpm class sata 6 gbs 128mb cache 3. Our comments box is a great way for you to view other peoples feedback about products on, and add your own. Looks like all new external wd drives have the controller board soldered.
Whats the difference between wds easystore series and my passport series. It has been my experience that the seagate 8tb drives are slow and noisy. Western digital mybook drive lock encryption failure and recovery. With 4 tb capacity you have ample space for storing millions of images, hundreds of hours of video or for music lovers, up to a million songs. All my latest shuck drives had an issue intenteded by wd, and its the 3. I think they use standard encryption, so you cant put data on it, then shuck it and read that data again. The my book drive is trusted desktop storage designed to complement your personal style with a massive amount of space to store your photos, videos, music and documents.
That pretty much means there is no good way to recover data if the usb controller. Got a 4 tb wd my book with a blue hard drive in it. Model brand wd series my book model wdbbgb0060hbknesn performance color black interface usb 3. Like an, i set up a password lock when i first installed the drive not realizing that rendered it useless for backups. Equipped with password protection and perfectly paired with wd backup or apple time machine, my book desktop storage helps keep your files safe.
The my book desktop hard drive also works great with acronis true image wd edition software to schedule full system backups. Finally got around to uploading my wd my book shucking guide. If you get a white label drive and if you shuck the drive. Why the price learn about wd easystore 4tb external usb 3. Designed to meet wds demanding requirements for durability, shock tolerance, and longterm reliability, we back up pun intended. I myself have successfully removed the 4tb drive from a mybook essential and installed it into my desktop. Western digital 4tb my book desktop external hard driveusb 3. Western digital mybook drive lock encryption failure and recovery western digital mybook elite external hard drives use hardwarebased encryption chips to optionally encrypt drives using 256bit encryption. The 8tb my book drives are pretty cheap on amazon right now, so im tempted.
Shucking external drives to get at the red nas drives within tends to be much. Hope it helps you guys in getting some cheap white label reds 256mb cache. The gtechnology gdrive with thunderbolt 8tb betters the my book 8tb consistently even over the. We had two wd 8tb my books en route from when pcper published that it got hgst he8 8tb 7200 rpm hard drives from units procured at best buy. Wd my book 4tb not recognized external drives for pc. Buy wd 6tb my book desktop external hard drive usb 3. Seagate is also doing this from what i have been seeing. Mac compatible, may require reformatting before use. But no problems if you shuck the drive and reformat it.
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