Hi Graham, Be careful if you decide to put this drive in an external enclosure - I did that with a WD drive from one of these units and it blew the enclosure power supply - and smoke came out of the molex adaptor. It was kinda cool looking, bar the data loss.
The odd thing is though, attaching it to the WD power supply didn't have this problem. In the end, the problem was with the power connector on the hard disk that was causing the problem. I've had another go on me in similar fashion - I'm a fan of WD and this sort of behaviour has been a bit of a surprise. I'm not sure if it may have been related to the powersave feature of these drives - I figure powering a drive up and down regularly may increase the chance of it freaking out. Gav From: Graham Byatt <gr...@westnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Problem with WD My Book drive My USB 1TB one, blew the power supply and then did the same to a replacement power supply (within 30secs). I'm wondering if this is likely to be a fixable thing because can't find receipt and don't know how much stuff is on there that i no longer have elsewhere. Graham -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
