{"video_id":"3e315y88SN4","title":"Western Digital MyBook Elite 1TB External Hard Drive Unboxing & First Look","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2010-05-08T14:53:29Z","duration_s":448,"segments":[{"start_s":0.599,"end_s":7.68,"text":"so today I'll be having a look at the WD mybook Elite this is an external hard","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.24,"end_s":11.799,"text":"drive it is premium backup and storage and it is the number one world's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.519,"end_s":16.48,"text":"bestselling external hard drives that is wd's claim to fame on this particular","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.4,"end_s":23.439,"text":"line well no I guess that's overall it has a three-year limited warranty it has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.56,"end_s":26.039,"text":"an LCD screen on the front it is secure","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.439,"end_s":29.84,"text":"and I have no idea what 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the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":415.319,"end_s":420.919,"text":"cameraman has a couple just like that he's nodding to me and uh they they can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":419.759,"end_s":424.919,"text":"like keep you up at night because they're so bright then there's a wd logo","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":423.12,"end_s":430.639,"text":"and that's pretty much all there is to it I mean it's quite simple really the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":427.28,"end_s":432.479,"text":"one thing that I don't see is um a disc","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":430.639,"end_s":436.8,"text":"for their software I'm guessing it comes pre-loaded and all you have to do is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":433.84,"end_s":439.8,"text":"plug it in which would stand to reason we could try plugging it in but I think","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.68,"end_s":446.0,"text":"that'll take too long why don't we do that in a separate video thank you for checking out my video blog on unboxing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":443.44,"end_s":449.0,"text":"the WD My Book Elite","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"so today I'll be having a look at the WD mybook Elite this is an external hard drive it is premium backup and storage and it is the number one world's bestselling external hard drives that is wd's claim to fame on this particular line well no I guess that's overall it has a three-year limited warranty it has an LCD screen on the front it is secure and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean it's a brain with gears in it but I guess we'll get to that when we get to it so it's a 1 terab drive that I have today it's up to 120 hours of HD or 25,000 no 250,000 MP3s or 200,000 jpegs okay I'm guessing that's just kind of averaged uh visual backup okay so this is their their LCD screen which can show it has a power and activity light it has a drive lock indicator so it locks and it has a capacity gauge so that's kind of cool you don't have to monitor it you can just monitor it at a glance okay so visual backup 250 system files music movies photos documents visual backup displays your content categories and confirms that your files have been backed up okay that's kind of neat Mouse over a category for an information window with file details I actually know nothing about this I'm just sort of unboxing it on the spot here so their smartware software is a visual control center it gives you automatic continuous backup it has password protection with 256bit Hardware encryption that's pretty cool you have a smart display custom label you can see your label available capacity and security status even when the drive is unplugged that's kind of a neat feature okay let's go around to the other side and this shows the drive itself so why don't we just take it out and show you the drive itself because this is meant to be unboxed and that's a lot ow oh that hurt okay I'm good I'm okay I'm all right oh hit my wrist on the table it's like going to bruise okay uh now I'm going to try and figure out how the Box opens there's a little tab oh there are stickers let cut the stickers okay little tab okay I got to cut the stickers the other way yes cut the stickers in every direction possible there we go okay so there it is there's the my book Elite and then over here is our accessories so why don't we start with the accessories let's see what we got inside here I'm going to guess there's a power cord yes success okay so here is an Asian power devices um 100 100 to 240 volt 50 to 60 her 0.5 amp 12vt power adapter cool and this is oh power supply it's even conveniently labeled look at that all right next we have um what else we have a USB data cable which is also labeled USB 2.0 oh this is this is kind of funny I haven't seen too many um 3 and 1/2 in external hard drives that use the little mini connector most of them seem to use the larger one but there you go and then we have a little pamphlet brochure thing that says Asian power devices ink and gives you some safety instructions for the included uh AC todc power adapter clean only with a dry cloth heat all warnings follow all inst instuctions do both of those things keep these These are okay this is great check this out okay one read these instructions two keep these instructions three heed all warnings four follow all instructions and then they give you the instructions so there's actually four instructions out of 19 about reading and keeping and following and heaing all of the instructions that's excellent um next we have an important note to Windows users make sure that you follow all these instructions also if it does not launch automatically open my computer oh it shows you how to uh how to access the drive my book Elite this is a quick start guide so step one two three one you plug in the power two you plug in the data and three you um use your computer to use the smartware software okay and there's nothing on the back oh they hey they have a text support in case you have trouble with those three instructions you can call text support in Spanish English Japanese whole bunch of other languages have one phone number in Middle East in Africa okay technical support and warranty gu wow this is thick technical support and warranty guide look at this thing you could like hang this on your wall I'm guessing it's because there are tin billion different languages and that seems to be the case so here's English and then here's some more English and I think that's all the English so there must be actually that many languages on here cool well it looks like some of the languages get diagrams and other ones don't like if anyone here someone should leave a comment and tell me what this says cuz that diagram isn't on there in English and I'd like to know what it says this one too actually what does that oh oh that's uh Ros so it's lead and Mercury cadmium all that kind of good stuff okay so without further Ado why don't we have a look at the actual my book Elite unit okay so this is the unbagging port of my unboxing oh wow these plastic things that they use are very strong or I'm very weak one of the two all right so it doesn't it weighs about as much as a typical 3 and 1/2 in Drive which is about what you'd expect um here's the bottom so it has two little rubberized uh foamy grippy feet so if you put it down it won't really slide too much that's pretty good okay on the side it has like a matte black finish can you see the shininess cameraman sort of okay good uh on the back this is where you find most of the business end of this particular device it's got a Kensington lock I'm really happy to see that then it's got a power button there's your USB interface and there's your power in okay this is all seems to be uh ventilation so if you actually look at it from this angle can you see that you can kind of see in where the drive is can can you tell okay yeah you can you can see that and then if you look in at this angle on the top you can actually see the the top of the drive so all these vent holes make sure that the drive stays nice and cool oh and the bottom is open too so it's going to use natural convection to um to let the heat rise out the top and then come in from the bottom that's kind of nice so at the front there's our LCD screen and then there's the power indicator LED just a little tiny one you know what I like to see that because you see so many external devices with these obnoxiously Bright Power indicators in fact the cameraman has a couple just like that he's nodding to me and uh they they can like keep you up at night because they're so bright then there's a wd logo and that's pretty much all there is to it I mean it's quite simple really the one thing that I don't see is um a disc for their software I'm guessing it comes pre-loaded and all you have to do is plug it in which would stand to reason we could try plugging it in but I think that'll take too long why don't we do that in a separate video thank you for checking out my video blog on unboxing the WD My Book Elite"}