Western Digital WDH1CS5000N 500GB My Book Home Edition External Hard Drive

There is only one thing you need to know about this drive. When using the eSATA interface, hard drive S.M.A.R.T. data will not be passed to the computer. The SMART data is a method of data collection that you can use to monitor the behavior of the drive and most importantly, observe warning signals that the drive may fail. This is not an error on my part, even the Western Digital diagnostic software fails to obtain it - see submitted picture.

To observe the SMART data, one must turn off the computer, connect the usb then restart. I am not aware that this is a hot swappable drive and if it is - one would need a motherboard with SATA ports that support hot swapping.

One star for being idiots.

Best thing really, buy a hard drive oem, and buy your own enclosure (with a fan!). Be about the same price.

I will be taking this apart and putting the drive into an external enclosure I will be buying.
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