I tried a Maxtor 500GB drive (MaXLine Pro 500 - an impulse buy at a cheap price, but maaan is this drive slow compared to the WD) and it seems to work fine in the MyBook case. Not sure what the difference is.
What a great thread! Intrigue, hardware shots, success, disaster, its got it all.
Skipping the long story, I wanted to swap the 500GB drive in "mybook" for a smaller drive, where the WD drive would be used in a striped array.
Motivated by this thread and a quantity of dark rum (potent...