New Drive for WD MyBook Case

[flopticalcube]

My old MyBook Home Premium 500GB drive has over 60000 bad blocks (and only 1/3 of the way through the scan) so I need a new drive. What would people recommend for it? I guess a WD Green 1TB would be OK but will that work in the MyBook enclosure? Any experience out there?

 

[johnnj]

I did the same thing last year with mine. I replaced it with a Seagate 7200rpm 1.5tb drive.

Any 3.5" SATA drive will fit in it.

I can tell you that it's somewhat of a pain in the ass to open the case and put it back together. The green plastic tool that comes with an ipod battery replacement kit is a must-have. If you have experience in cracking stuff open and putting it back together it's pretty obvious how to do it, though.

John

 

[flopticalcube]

Thanks for the reply. I thought any drive will work but I wanted to make sure. I already have the case open (it was a pain in the ass and the neck and pretty much everywhere else ). I like the enclosure because it has FW400. Don't want to spend another $25 I don't have to.

 

[Ca$hflow]

I'm close to the same situation. I really don't want to loose my FW800 too.

 

[johnnj]

Yeah, it really is a nice enclosure in terms of the interface options.