I bought a 1 TB WD USB 3.0 kit (drive and a USB 3.0 port PCI card) the day that they came onto the market in Canada. I only hooked it up to my computer a few times to do manual backups. Yesterday, I went to hook it up and discovered that there was a problem with the USB port. Since the unit was out of warranty, I took it apart and discovered that it is simply a WD Caviar Black drive with an enclosure. The enclosure included a little circuit board that had the power receptacle, the USB 3.0 port and the reset button on it. The USB 3.0 port had completely fallen off the circuit board. Unlike any other circuit board I have seen, the USB port did not have contacts that went through the circuit board and were then soldered onto the back of it. Instead, it was only soldered from the top of the port down onto the surface of the circuit board in two tiny spots. It looked like it was absolutely guaranteed to fall apart at some point. I have four WD internal caviar drives in my PC and have also used WD caviar drives as internal replacements and external extensions of my HD PVR. Up until this point, I have had full faith in their product quality. However, an external hard drive that cannot be hooked up to anything is completely useless - this piece of hardware should have been designed not to fail. If this happens to you and the drive is out of warranty, do what I did and simply install the hard drive from the unit as an internal hard drive on your computer. You will still be able to access your data and to use the drive albeit for internal backups.
too bad mate. I guess we are out of luck. it happens the same to me last year.
I heard that on the newer my book models they are coming with a native USB drive inside.
