Drives used in Mybook?

[watercooled]

Does anyone know what drives WD uses in their Mybook series? I'd guess it was the Caviar Green series myself...

[PeteSmith]

i just disected mine, it has a wd5000aajs wd caviar. model 22TKAO, which i believe is blue if i'm not mistaken

[watercooled]

Thanks mate. Been wondering that for a while lol

[synaesthesia]

Mybooks are best dissected and the drives stolen, placed in something other than a Mybook Ruddy awful bits of kit >:|

Place I look after bought 50 1tb models not long ago. All failed with the same software/firmware fault and all sent back to be replaced by something that works :|

[watercooled]

Had no problems with mine.

[PeteSmith]

mine held up for about a year, then the HDD went. i did a fair bit of fiddling with mine too, if you currently use one this is a good resource: http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/. Ultimately i would agree with synaesthesia, as far as external HDD's go, they are ruddy awful. Poor transfer rates, unreliable and don't bounce very well.

[watercooled]

Mine doesn't get moved, apart from the occasional nudge and it's only used a few times a week on average, so it should last. Desktop drives aren't made to be rugged, so failing after being dropped is to be expected really.

[PeteSmith]

Pist... I was joking about the bouncing part

[watercooled]

Lol, I know. BTW, does anyone happen to know what drive is used in model number: WD3200D0332 which is a MyBook Premium 320GB. Interested in how many platter it has - it's a 320 so I'm thinking a single platter but it's not exactly a new drive so mayne 2x160GB platters?