I don't know; it could possibly mean that the SATA-to-USB bridge in the enclosure only can recognize/support up to 4TB? haven't seen something like that for enclosures myself. for 6TB hdd tho, i'd recommend to splurge a bit and get something with USB3.0 or even eSATA if your computer supports it.

From I know, WD Green uses Intelli park which is one of the main reasons of WD Green drives higher failure rate

Yeah there were reports on that from pre-2010. However, I built a budget PC for my mom with a WD Green as its primary drive, and so far it's running fine. So based on personal experience (which is on only one drive though) it has not exhibited any problems.

Yup true. Got mine total lost after 1 year of usage. My 80 gb Maxtor sata running smooth till now. Bought on 2006

my WD MyBook 2TB just failed on me
Detectable, but when I double click to enter the drive, it shows I/O error.

I remove it from the casing, and connect using another external casing, but same problem remains.

Is every My Book series from WD now is with green series?

This post has been edited by zelltan8: Feb 5 2015, 04:17 PM

Dunno actually, I saw on youtube some opened My Books have WD Red inside oso.

If you say that the drive is detectable, does it give you a drive letter in Computer? If yes, try doing a chkdsk /r. Might be a very longshot though.
Another thing is that you might want to do is put the drive back into the original casing, coz WD sometimes have hardware encryption which will cause the drive to not work with other casing or as internal drive, unless you reformat it.

Hey guys,

Now, I may seem to be lazy ( I am ), but can someone tell me what is the cheapest online deal for a 2TB Seagate Expansion?

Would appreciate it so much

Also, to anyone who recommends me a Lazada or IPMart deal, please reconsider it; hearing the horror stories on /k are killing me.

Would be bloody glad to know if anyone can find me these deals

err... I just bought hardisk from Lazada. Cheap and great.

hmm..anyone use wd cloud or mybook essential here?

Toshiba MK7559GSXP 750GB 5400RPM unable to detect. any solution? thanks~

WD My Cloud Mirror user here, what's up what's up?

That's a 2.5" HDD. Unable to detect where? What's the situation?

Is it still in a laptop? Then laptop cannot boot at all? Take HDD out and put into external case and test (you might have done this already). Feel if there's any mechanical movement to see if it spins or not. If no power/vibration/mechanical movement then it's dead, dead, dead...

If it's inside an external case already and cannot be detected... was it working with the external case before this? Have you tried different cables and USB ports?
One thing you can try is reinstall USB driver.

Go to Device Manager, and under Universal Serial Bus Controllers, look for USB Mass Storage Device. Uninstall it, then unplug/replug the external case.

If after that, the USB driver shows ok and still doesn't work, then go to Disk Management. Check if it's detected there or not. Maybe it has become unformatted and you need to initialize and format it again. Bad news for whatever data is in there though.


Let us know here how it goes, and good luck~

wish to purchase 1 as backup drive and stream HD movie to my ipad. i only got 100mbps tm modem RIGER, not sure it suit me or not.
how abt wd my book essential?

and i wanna buy a 3TB hdd too..wonder wd green/ seagate barracuda which one is preferred by pro.

p/s: as storage device only. i got intel ssd for my system.

This post has been edited by amon90: Feb 13 2015, 12:40 PM

already removed from my bro laptop & plug into my pc. unable to detect & cause my OS hanged.

yike, my condolences bro, that's a dead hdd right there...

My condolences bro... looks like it's dead already... OS hang probably means it's really struggling to read the sectors...

RIP brand toshiba gave me another bad impression. adata & kingston hdd also. seagate never disappointed me after more than 10 yrs.

That's a bit low... you might not get the full potential of My Cloud, especially the cloud feature.

For My Book Essential, it's just a normal external HDD plugged in via USB which requires it's own power supply.

Dude have you ever thought of the WD My Passport Wireless or Seagate Wireless Plus? They go up to 2TB, and you can stream movies and songs from it to your tablet or phone. Kinda awesome especially when going on holiday or roadtrips. WD My Passport Wireless slightly better coz got SD card slot too. Can work directly via USB, or wireless with their built-in battery. And multiple ppl can connect to them at the same time too.