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