I managed to get my hands on a 400GB Western Digital My Book Essential edition external HDD on a Black Friday deal. In truth, this drive would be more useful to me as an internal one. My intent is to remove the drive inside and swap it with a smaller one I have in my case. Ideally, I wish to open the enclosure without breaking it so I can then make the smaller drive the external one.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this drive and/or tips on how I might go about opening it up with as little damage to the enclosure as possible. Also, my whole plan is based on the assumption that the drive inside has a SATA interface rather than PATA/IDE. If anybody can confirm or deny this assumption, please let me know.
I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this drive and/or tips on how I might go about opening it up with as little damage to the enclosure as possible. Also, my whole plan is based on the assumption that the drive inside has a SATA interface rather than PATA/IDE. If anybody can confirm or deny this assumption, please let me know.