Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “WD My Book Studio LX Unboxing & Overview”.
What’S up guys today we got another product for you all. It’S the my book studio lx from western digital, it’s obviously an external hard drive, but it’s got some unique features that some other drives might not have. Of course you pay for those features, but i’ll go over them. Anyways, the first and maybe most important, is it’s got a couple of different interfaces. First, it’s got usb 2.0, which you’d expect and second of all, it’s got firewire 800, which makes it a little bit more unique.
Anybody who owns a mac uh, particularly a newer model, imac or macbook pro, will be able to take advantage of this firewire 800 interface, which is going to give you significantly better transfer speed than you’ll get over usb 2.0. The other feature that this drive has that differentiates it from what else is on the market is a display. Now you might be saying what the hell do. I need to display on my external hard drive for and my answer to, that would be you don’t no, but seriously it could be beneficial if your use case is similar to mine, where i’ve got a number of different external hard drives, and i’m always wondering what I can fit where then, in this case, i can just quickly glance at this external and know right away how much capacity remains available getting back to the unboxing. The first thing we pulled out was a mini usb to usb cable. Second, we’ve got a little bit of paperwork from western digital and we’ve got a couple more cables here, they’re similar, but slightly different.
The first cable is firewire 800 to 400, and the next one is firewire 800 to 800. Now the reason you might need to use the 800 to 400 is if you’re, using an older mac or any machine for that matter. That supports the 400 protocol, but not the 800. Keep in mind if you use that adapter cable you’re going to be clocked back to 400 speeds, so there is a bit of a trade-off, although i would still recommend using it as opposed to usb 2.0, if available to you next, we’ve got the power adapter, which I can’t say much about other than it powers a device. That’S right, major excitement there. Lastly, we’ve got the drive itself and something to mention is i notice right away that there is an image being displayed on the display, and i can’t tell right now if it’s a dummy sticker or if it’s actually there, i guess i’ll, find out once i get Inside this plastic package here, the other thing to note is that the construction on the drive is aluminum and that’s always a good thing, especially when you’re dealing with hard drives because they get hot.
So the aluminum is going to help to dissipate the heat a lot better than plastic wood. It’S also going to mean the drive is going to run quieter because the fans don’t have to constantly be revving. So the first thing i notice is that it’s got some vents around all sides, with the exception of the front side, and i was right, it is actually displaying something right now, which tells me there’s probably some form of battery backup inside the device. So, in the event you power it down, you’re still going to have that display functioning.
So that’s pretty cool. I wonder how long it lasts. I mean if they shipped it with it. Then it’s probably going to last pretty long. So i’m assuming, if you travel with your drives or unplug them and put them on a shelf, it’s still going to display what’s on there and how much capacity remains. Here’S a look at the back of the device! We’Ve got our power button, two firewire 800s. A usb our dc in and a kensington lock be sure to check out our channel for unboxings galore .