Determine Model Number Of Drive Inside External My Book WD 4TB Desktop Drives

Saracen Rush · Jan 2, 2016

Hi there

I am looking at purchasing a second hand external WD 4tb drive, remove it from it's casing and place it directly into my desktop machine. There is a chap who has 2 different WD My Book Desktop external drives I can buy from him.

Now from what I have read on forums, these external drives more often than not contain one of WD's Green HDD's which I am not looking to buy. My question to everyone here is, is there a way to check within windows what the internal model number is of one of these My Book drives so this seller can report it back to me and we can determine if it is one of WD's Blue models instead which apparently these drives occasionally contain?

Thank you all in advance.

Luke

getochkn · Jan 2, 2016

It could also be a newer one where they don't use SATA drives now and use their own direct USB interface and thus, can't be hooked up to a PC.

SuperSoph_WD · Jan 4, 2016

Welcome to the community & Happy New Year, Saracen Rush!

Unfortunately, there's no way to determine the HDD inside the WD My Book enclosure without voiding the warranty on the drive. The drives that we put inside the WD enclosures may vary depending on the application of that drive. However, the interface and cache of the HDD inside don't affect the performance of the external hard drive unit. Here's an article from our knowledge base that explains this in details: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=LqaysK

If you have any concerns whatsoever, I'd recommend you to consult with our customer support: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=yMQlYL

P.S. We did some changes to simplify the drive selection by consolidating our mainstream PC product line to only the WD Blue family. This means that we no longer have the WD Green brand as you know it - all current Green capacity, cache and form-factor configurations will remain available through their lifecycle, but under the WD Blue brand. For more information, you should check the WD Blue's product page and more specifically the 'Green to Blue details' here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nbF4PV

Best of luck! Hope I was helpful!

SuperSoph_WD

Saracen Rush · Jan 30, 2016

SuperSoph_WD :

Welcome to the community & Happy New Year, Saracen Rush!

Unfortunately, there's no way to determine the HDD inside the WD My Book enclosure without voiding the warranty on the drive. The drives that we put inside the WD enclosures may vary depending on the application of that drive. However, the interface and cache of the HDD inside don't affect the performance of the external hard drive unit. Here's an article from our knowledge base that explains this in details: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=LqaysK

If you have any concerns whatsoever, I'd recommend you to consult with our customer support: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=yMQlYL

P.S. We did some changes to simplify the drive selection by consolidating our mainstream PC product line to only the WD Blue family. This means that we no longer have the WD Green brand as you know it - all current Green capacity, cache and form-factor configurations will remain available through their lifecycle, but under the WD Blue brand. For more information, you should check the WD Blue's product page and more specifically the 'Green to Blue details' here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=nbF4PV

Best of luck! Hope I was helpful!

SuperSoph_WD

Thank you Soph

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