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MyBook Studio II 2Tb - drive replacement

How to remove or replace the SATA RAID drives, inside a Western Digital MyBook Studio 2. The drive used as the guinea pig here, is the 2 Terabyte model.

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  1. territt16 Said,

    you have to make …
    you have to make sure the drives you use to replace them are WD Green drives, others wont work.

  2. alexnovotni Said,

    Thanks for the …
    Thanks for the Video; I have both the My Book Studio version and the My Book Premium edition 2.

    Basically, what I am trying to do is to replace the 2 drives with 2 new hard drives. Once i put the new hard drives in they don’t seem to be detected by Mac or Win. Just wanted to find out if you had ever replaced a HDD in the My Book and what process did you have to go thought for them to work successfully?

  3. lukavivid Said,

    yo m8! if aint for …
    yo m8! if aint for your video i would broken the housing of my Studio Edition II.

    thanx!

  4. X41N3 Said,

    i actually bought 1 …
    i actually bought 1 of those WDGP drives some months ago (250 euro, 388 dollar)
    now they’r 109-119 euro x2 = 240 + expensive casing = 310,- and they still offer the thing for 350 euro ;p

    i was considering the studio version cause of the eSata connection, the usb mirror cheaper version is getting around 16mb/s i heard.
    i was hoping to get around 50mb/s using eSata.
    luckily i still have some time to decide, just too bad my local reseller doesnt have everything ;_;

    thnx anyway for the reply :)

  5. unlokia Said,

    I only used it at …
    I only used it at maximum (2Tb) capacity, so I’m unsure about the RAID. It doesn’t come with eSATA cable, no, and no I haven’t done benchmarks, sorry.

    It’s not that expensive considering what you get. However, I’d be inclined to buy a pair of Samsung Spinpoint drives, as the drives inside this product are the WD “greenpower” and RPMs range 5,400-7,200 and it is certainly NOT a fast performance drive (the actual SATA drives inside) in it’s class. Thanks!.

  6. X41N3 Said,

    Can i ask a few …
    Can i ask a few questions about this particular product?

    it’s a pretty expensive product (360 euro/ 558 dollar) so, i want to make sure it’s all good.

    does the raid1 function work properly? i have seen lacie’s failing on that.

    have u done any benchmarks regarding transferspeed using the usb/esata/firewire?

    and does it include a eSata cable?

    Anyway, thnx if u can help me, even if it’s just a bit ;)

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