Disassembling Western Digital MyBook World Edition

Ever complain that the fan in the MyBook World Edition is too loud or the drive is transferring too slow that you want to remove the hard drives to put in external USB hard drive case? If you answered yes to either questions or both, I will show you how to disassemble your MyBook World Edition to disconnect the power cable to the fan and to remove the hard drives.

Please note that this may void your WD warranty. But if it's past your warranty or you simply do not care about your warranty, then proceed.

Please also note that disconnecting the fan may risk the device overheating. Upon disconnecting the fan, please place hard drive in a well ventilated area.

Step 1 Tool you will need

All you need is a standard Philips head screwdriver. To disconnect the fan you may need a smaller screwdriver since it requires prying a connector loose from a small access hole. Sounds tricky but not difficult.

Remove all four screws on the outside case with Philips head screwdriver.

Comments

[admin]

This is a great Instructable, but you need to add a main image of the final project to the intro step. Please do that and leave me a message when you have so that we can publish your work. Thanks!

[ax89]

Thanks. I have the WD model world book with the firewire and usb and this instructable was right on the money. Thanks.

[manesh]

Great tutorial.  However I have the 1tb my book world nas with the blue rings and it does not have any screws to remove on the outside.

Is there a tutorial for my NAS drive?

[cat3rn]

 What if the MyBook does not have screws like mine?

[lawrencewang]

Actually, this might be what you are looking for: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Open-a-Western-Digital-MyBook-USB-Drive./

[lawrencewang]

Unfortunately, this is primarily written for the MyBook World Edition with ethernet -- network attached storage (NAS) -- and not for the MyBook USB/Firewire version.

You will need to do a search for specifically MyBook.  

My suggestion would be to search for "MyBook USB" or "MyBook Firewire" depending on your MyBook type. 

Hope this helps!