04-12-2010, 10:11 PM
Hi.
Recently, my 1TB MyBook external drive failed. Hardware errors sometimes get reported when I try to use it, and other times it is slow and unresponsive and gets "stuck", hanging the program that's trying to use it. It won't reliably reformat.
It's a multi-interface drive (USB, FW400 and FW800) which I like. I haven't opened it up yet, but I'm pretty sure there's just a SATA drive inside.
I should be able to buy a new hard drive and replace the one in the MyBook, right? And somehow it seems that external USB drives are often cheaper than bare drives of similar capacities. How about buying an external USB drive, removing the drive from it, and transplanting it into the MyBook? Do external USB drives maybe use low-spec drive mechanisms because USB is slower than the other interfaces?
Thought I'd ask before I tried it.
Thanks,
Ben
(Used on an Intel iMac a year or so old.)
Recently, my 1TB MyBook external drive failed. Hardware errors sometimes get reported when I try to use it, and other times it is slow and unresponsive and gets "stuck", hanging the program that's trying to use it. It won't reliably reformat.
It's a multi-interface drive (USB, FW400 and FW800) which I like. I haven't opened it up yet, but I'm pretty sure there's just a SATA drive inside.
I should be able to buy a new hard drive and replace the one in the MyBook, right? And somehow it seems that external USB drives are often cheaper than bare drives of similar capacities. How about buying an external USB drive, removing the drive from it, and transplanting it into the MyBook? Do external USB drives maybe use low-spec drive mechanisms because USB is slower than the other interfaces?
Thought I'd ask before I tried it.
Thanks,
Ben
(Used on an Intel iMac a year or so old.)