Western Digital My Book Pro 
Added by Julle on Wed, 2009-01-28 19:26
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Comments
Nice and quite quiet external hard drive with Firewire 400/800 & USB 2.0. Only the first one I got nearly two years ago was keeping loud high pitch noise. Luckily the store took it back and gave me a new one. Now the second one fried itself up but I was able to get the data out by disassembling the case and taking out the drive.
After this I googled about this problem and found lots of similar faults. One guy posted a guide for opening the case to his blog (link below) and at the moment there is 288 replies, mostly from people with similar problems.
http://www.ransackery.com/western-digital-mybook-open-case-recover-data.htm
It seems to be an overheating issue - product not recommended.