This hard drive uses four 500GB platters and is much larger than a traditional notebook hard drive. With the enclosure opened up we found that Western Digital is using 2.5″ hard drive with model number WD20NMVW that is not available for resale. The only way to find this out is to take ours apart to see if this can be done. One of the most asked questions to Legit Reviews is if someone can take the drive out of a portable drive and use it in a console gaming unit or a notebook PC or something else. Many enthusiasts noticed that external/portable hard drive prices didn’t go up nearly as much, so if you wanted to save money it was actually cheaper to buy a portable drive and tear it apart to get to the SATA hard drive so it can be used in a PC or laptop. This caused hard drive prices to more than double as the supply of hard drives dried up fairly quickly. Last year when Thailand got hit with a flood the hard drive market was directly impacted due to many of their manufacturing facilities being located there.
