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so today I'll be having a look at the WD mybook Elite this is an external hard

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drive it is premium backup and storage and it is the number one world's

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bestselling external hard drives that is wd's claim to fame on this particular

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line well no I guess that's overall it has a three-year limited warranty it has

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an LCD screen on the front it is secure

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and I have no idea what that's supposed to mean it's a brain with gears in it

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but I guess we'll get to that when we get to it so it's a 1 terab drive that I

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have today it's up to 120 hours of HD or

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25,000 no 250,000 MP3s or 200,000 jpegs

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okay I'm guessing that's just kind of averaged uh visual backup okay so this

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is their their LCD screen which can show

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it has a power and activity light it has a drive lock indicator so it locks and

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it has a capacity gauge so that's kind of cool you don't have to monitor it you

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can just monitor it at a glance okay so

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visual backup 250 system files music movies photos documents visual backup

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displays your content categories and confirms that your files have been

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backed up okay that's kind of neat Mouse over a category for an

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information window with file details I actually know nothing about this I'm

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just sort of unboxing it on the spot here so their smartware software is a

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visual control center it gives you automatic continuous backup it has

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password protection with 256bit Hardware encryption that's pretty

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cool you have a smart display custom label you can see your label available

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capacity and security status even when the drive is unplugged that's kind of a

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neat feature okay let's go around to the other side and this shows the drive

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itself so why don't we just take it out and show you the drive itself because

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this is meant to be unboxed and that's a

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lot ow oh that hurt okay I'm good I'm

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okay I'm all right

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oh hit my wrist on the table it's like

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going to bruise okay uh now I'm going to try and

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figure out how the Box opens there's a little tab oh there are stickers let cut

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the stickers okay little

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tab okay I got to cut the stickers the other way yes cut the stickers in every

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direction possible there we go okay so there it is there's the my book Elite

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and then over here is our accessories so why don't we start with the accessories

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let's see what we got inside here I'm going to guess there's a power

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cord yes success okay so here is an

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Asian power devices um 100 100 to 240 volt 50 to 60

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her 0.5 amp 12vt power

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adapter cool and this is oh power supply

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it's even conveniently labeled look at that all right next we have um what else

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we have a USB data cable which is also labeled USB 2.0 oh this is this is kind

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of funny I haven't seen too many um 3

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and 1/2 in external hard drives that use the little mini connector most of them

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seem to use the larger one but there you go and then we have a little pamphlet

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brochure thing that says Asian power

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devices ink and gives you some safety instructions for the included uh AC todc

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power adapter clean only with a dry cloth heat all warnings follow all inst

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instuctions do both of those things keep these These are okay this is great check

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this out okay one read these instructions two keep these instructions

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three heed all warnings four follow all instructions and then they give you the

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instructions so there's actually four instructions out of 19 about reading and

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keeping and following and heaing all of the instructions that's excellent um

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next we have an important note to Windows users make sure that you follow

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all these instructions also if it does not launch automatically open my

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computer oh it shows you how to uh how to access the drive my book Elite this

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is a quick start guide so step one two three one you plug in the power two you

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plug in the data and three you um use

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your computer to use the smartware software

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okay and there's nothing on the back oh they hey they have a text support in

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case you have trouble with those three instructions you can call text support in Spanish English Japanese whole

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bunch of other languages have one phone number in Middle East in Africa okay

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technical support and warranty gu wow this is thick technical support and

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warranty guide look at this thing you could like hang this on your

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wall I'm guessing it's because there are

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tin billion different languages and that seems to be the case so here's

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English and then here's some more English and I think that's all the

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English so there must be actually that many languages on

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here cool well it looks like some of the languages get diagrams and other ones

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don't like if anyone here someone should leave a comment and tell me what this

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says cuz that diagram isn't on there in English and I'd like to know what it

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says this one too actually what does that oh oh that's uh Ros so it's lead

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and Mercury cadmium all that kind of good stuff okay so without further Ado

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why don't we have a look at the actual my book Elite

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unit okay so this is the unbagging port

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of my unboxing oh wow these plastic things

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that they use are very strong or I'm very weak one of the

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two all right so it doesn't it weighs about as much as a typical 3 and 1/2 in

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Drive which is about what you'd expect um here's the bottom so it has two

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little rubberized uh foamy grippy feet

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so if you put it down it won't really slide too much that's pretty good okay

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on the side it has like a matte black finish can you see the shininess

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cameraman sort of okay good uh on the back this is where you find most of the

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business end of this particular device it's got a Kensington lock I'm really

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happy to see that then it's got a power button there's your USB interface and

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there's your power in okay this is all seems to be uh ventilation so if you

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actually look at it from this angle can you see that you can kind of see in

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where the drive is can can you tell okay

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yeah you can you can see that and then if you look in at this angle on the top

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you can actually see the the top of the drive so all these vent holes make sure

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that the drive stays nice and cool oh and the bottom is open too so it's going

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to use natural convection to um to let

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the heat rise out the top and then come in from the bottom that's kind of nice

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so at the front there's our LCD screen

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and then there's the power indicator LED

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just a little tiny one you know what I like to see that because you see so many

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external devices with these obnoxiously Bright Power indicators in fact the

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cameraman has a couple just like that he's nodding to me and uh they they can

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like keep you up at night because they're so bright then there's a wd logo

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and that's pretty much all there is to it I mean it's quite simple really the

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one thing that I don't see is um a disc

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for their software I'm guessing it comes pre-loaded and all you have to do is

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plug it in which would stand to reason we could try plugging it in but I think

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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

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the WD My Book Elite