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    wd edternal hard drive

    o.k i go one of them wd external 250 gig hard drives, now the firewire ports are fuged and the drive is out of waranty ( by 2 months). is the drive in the case ide ? if it is how can so i can open the case so i can take the drive out .

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    It's almost certainly gonna be an IDE hard drive in there - it's cheap for the manu's just to slap a IDE>Firewire bridge in there.

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    which WD model drive do u have ?

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      • Memory:
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      • Storage:
      • Samsung 870 (128)ssd 2x1.5 tb, 2 of Seagate Barracuda 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB (raid 0)
      • Graphics card(s):
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