 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 best selling 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 one terabyte 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 visual backup. Okay, so this is 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 there's SmartWare software, there's a visual control center. It gives you automatic continuous backup. It has password protection with 256 bit 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's 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 in slot. Oh, oh, that hurt. Okay, I'm good. I'm okay. I'm all right. Oh, hit my wrist on the table. It's like gonna bruise. Okay, now I'm gonna try and figure out how the box opens. There's a little tab. Oh, there are stickers. Cut the stickers. Okay, little tab. Okay, I gotta 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 MyBook 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 gonna guess there's a power cord. Yes, success. Okay, so here is an Asian power cord. This is 100 to 240 volt, 50 to 60 hertz, 0.5 amp, 12 volt power adapter. Cool. And this is, oh, power supply. It's even conveniently labeled. Look at that. All right, next we have, what else? We have a USB data cable, which is also labeled USB 2.0. Oh, this is kind of funny. I haven't seen too many three and a half inch 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, Inc. and gives you some safety instructions for the included AC to DC power adapter. Clean only with a dry cloth. Heat all warnings. Follow all instructions. Do both of those things. Keep these in. These are, okay, this is great. Check this out. Okay, one, read these instructions. Two, keep these instructions. Three, heat 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 heeding all of the instructions. That's excellent. Next we have an important note to Windows users. Make sure that you follow all these instructions. Also, if it does not launch automatically with my computer, oh, it shows you how to access the drive. MyBook 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 use your computer to use the smartware software. Okay. And there's nothing on the back. Oh, hey, they have a tech support. In case you have trouble with those three instructions, you can call tech support in Spanish, English, Japanese, whole bunch of other languages have one phone number in Middle East and Africa. Okay. Technical support and warranty. Wow, this is thick. Technical support and warranty guide. Look at this thing. You could like hang this on the wall. I'm guessing it's because there are umpteen 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. If anyone here, someone should leave a comment and tell me what this says. Cause that diagram isn't on there in English and I'd like to know what it says. This one too actually. What does that say? Oh, that's a ROHS. So it's lead and mercury and cadmium, all that kind of good stuff. Okay. So without further ado, why don't we have a look at the actual MyBook Elite unit? Okay. So this is the unbagging portion 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 three and a half inch 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. 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 a ventilation. So if you actually look at it from this angle, can you see that? You can kind of see into where the drive is. Can you tell? Okay. Yeah, you can do, 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 they'll, 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 preloaded 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 MyBook Elite.