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Comment on Western Digital My Book Pro is finally quiet as a mouse by anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:17:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I did it and my hears feel better now
BTW : Happy new year!
cya

Comment on Western Digital My Book Pro is finally quiet as a mouse by billythefisherman

billythefisherman — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:45:41 +0000

I have to say I don’t know the slightest thing about electrics or electronics but can’t you just cut the wires on the old fan cut the wires on the new fan and twist each one together and tape over each join with a bit of insulating tape – there’s just a standard red and black cable right?

Or am I asking for my house to burn down here or some other catastrophic event?

Comment on Western Digital MyBook Pro 1TB review: as loud as a hairdryer by J.Ekrami

J.Ekrami — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:57:45 +0000

I want to change the hards to 1TB each but it not functioning ,does any one know how to upgrade it to new harddisks?

Thanks,
J.Ekrami

Comment on Power Mac G4 reloaded by Scott Fraser

Scott Fraser — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:06:29 +0000

Hi Martin, hanks for the post. I have been trying to figure out how to take my very old G4 and turn it into a NAS box. I was going to try and put OpenFiler or some other open-source NAS stack on it, but was having trouble finding something that supports the G4 CPU. Then I found your post and it suddenly occurred to me… of course! I could just keep OS X on there! However, I am not sure if I can get Leopard/Time-Machine to work with this – apparently you can enable unsupported shares and AFP as well as SMB may work.

My original idea was to get OpenFiler running on it and use it as an iSCSI backend, but it looks like OpenFiler is more focused on x86.

Thanks for the inspiration.

-Scott

Comment on Western Digital MyBook Pro 1TB review: as loud as a hairdryer by chris

chris — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:52:48 +0000

Thanks for writing about this drive.

My fan is just as noisy but further more the drives *squeal like a rusty gate* when asked to do more than transfer a few Word documents, and also times out during large transfers. So much for backing up other drives or systems. Suffice it to say I expected a whole lot more than I got from this drive

Comment on Western Digital My Book Pro is finally quiet as a mouse by Bastilia

Bastilia — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:26:34 +0000

Hello there. Nice job!
I’m courious if the drives inside are sata or pata. Tnx

Comment on Western Digital MyBook Pro 1TB review: as loud as a hairdryer by MeX

MeX — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:27:53 +0000

Great review. Top marks!

Also, check out:

Silent PC Review
http://silentpcreview.com

Eco PC Review
http://www.ecopcreview.com

Comment on 10 features the Apple iPhone is missing by MeX

MeX — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:24:42 +0000

The iPhone could be the ultimte wireless presentation remote if only Apple wanted. Like this but much better, being Mac OS X inside:

iGo Pitch Duo
http://www.igo.com/product.asp?sku=2352927

Check out the awesome video commercial “No Baggage: The power of mobility (1 minute)” at

http://www.microsoft.com/business/peopleready/overview/default.mspx?WT.svl=1

(search and click “People-Ready Business in Action: the TV commercials behind the concept” to reach it).

Comment on Power Mac G4 reloaded by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:12:40 +0000

Very nice article. cool what one can still do with this old piece of hardware.

Comment on Western Digital My Book Pro is finally quiet as a mouse by Helder Luis

Helder Luis — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:56:26 +0000

Just got mine… for awile it was quiet as a mouse…
After one hour turned on… the fan kicks in…
Took it appart, reversed the fan and removed the top HD plate… this way it gets more air from the holes outside.

Lets see what happens…

Thank you for the post…