WD My Passport Portable Drive.

WD My Passport Portable Drive

This is just a quick note about my Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1 TB external drive. I wanted to use the drive to recover a backup, but could not find the cable that it needs, so I decided to open it.

This is the cable that my external drive needs, I have one but could not find it.

So my idea was to remove the internal drive from the enclosure, like any other drive, they’re normally 2.5″ SATA, and then I could plug the drive into another adaptor that I have and recover what I needed, but that’s not what happened.

What’s Inside?

Well, this is interesting, here is what I found, it turns out that it has an integrated USB-3 port on the PCB instead of the usual SATA port. See the images below!

Looks like I’m going to have to find my cable and possibly buy a space. I wonder what those 12 pins are for, that are next to the USB-3 port?

I hope you found this as funny and interesting as I did.

Chris.