Can I upgrade the My Book Premium ES Edition?
Personal January 10th, 2008Yes you can, and it’s awesome. It took about 10 minutes, and about 10 screws. But why would you? Well I’m glad you asked!
I robocopy all my DVD’s up to a couple of Western Digital My Books. That way all my DVDs are at my fingertips, and it stops my little man from putting vegemite toast in the DVD drive of the Media Centre :)
But Christmas Santa gave me quite a few DVDs. So it’s time to copy them up, but I’m out of space. So I bought a couple of WD 750 SATA disks on special. $200 AUD each, a bargain!
The upgrade was quite painless: popped of the chassis of the My Book, removed the cage screws, removed the drive screws, one screw out of the PCB.
Then I just popped in the new drive, put it all back together, plugged it back in and Voilla! The My Book is now 250Gb larger. I’m just copying over all the content from the old disk now. ….23 minutes remaining.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Ok, a little mor on why external USB drives:
I’m trying to cut back on the amount of power I consume in the house. Not just on the media centre, but lights, appliances, and stuff.
I have 3x My Books, and as drives get cheaper, I’ll just put larger drives in the caddy. But the BIGGEST reason, is so I don’t have to take the media centre off-line.
The home server I’m reserving for data that I don’t have copies or an original of. I have all the DVDs, so if the drive did die for some reason, I just copy the original DVD again
March 27th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Shuddup! How do you get into these things? I see the hard drive inside, the sneaky bugger, but I don’t see any screws to get to.
Maybe under the rubber…
March 27th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Wahoo. In my desperation, i started fiddling. The cover kind of just slides out if you jiggle it around — the solid plastic piece is separate from the ‘vented’ plastic piece. From this point, I think i’ll be just fine :)
Maybe voids warranty, however…
March 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Hey James, glad you got it sorted buddy. Welcome to the tinkererers club =)
March 27th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
For more on the vegemite toast problem: http://blog.windowsvirtualization.com/personal/my-dvd-collection-the-ultimate-p2v