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what's up guys today we got another product for you all it's the my book studio LX from Western Digital it's obviously an external hard drive but it's got some unique features that some other drives might not have of course you pay for those features but I'll go over them anyways the first and maybe most important is it's got a couple of different interfaces first it's got USB 2.0 which you'd expect and second of all it's got firewire 800 which makes it a little bit more unique anybody who owns a Mac particularly a newer model iMac or MacBook Pro will be able to take advantage of this firewire 800 interface which is going to give you significantly better transfer speed then you'll get over USB 2.0 the other feature that this Drive has that differentiates it from what else is on the market is a display now you might be saying what the hell do I need to display on my external hard drive for and my answer to that would be you don't know but seriously it could be beneficial if your use case is similar to mine where I've got a number of different external hard drives and I'm always wondering what I can fit where then in this case I could just quickly glance at this external and know right away how much capacity remains available getting back to the unboxing the first thing we pulled out was a mini USB to USB cable second we've got a little bit of paperwork from Western Digital and we've got a couple more cables here they're similar but slightly different the first cable is firewire 800 to 400 and the next one is firewire 800 - 800 now the reason you might need to use the 800 to 400 is if you're using an older Mac or any machine for that matter that supports the 400 protocol but not the 800 keep in mind if you use that adapter cable you're going to be clocked back to 400 speeds so there is a bit of a trade-off although I would still recommend using it as opposed to USB 2.0 if available to you next we've got the power adapter which I can't say much about other than it powers it to fine that's right major excitement there lastly we've got the drive itself and something to mention is I notice right away that there is an image being displayed on the display and I can't tell right now if it's a dummy sticker or if it's actually there I guess I'll find out one once I get inside this plastic package here the other thing to note is that the construction on the drive is aluminum and that's always a good thing especially when you're dealing with hard drives because they get hot so the aluminum is gonna help to dissipate the heat a lot better than plastic would it's also gonna mean the drive is gonna run quieter because the fans don't have to constantly be revving so the first thing I notice is that it's got some vents around all sides with the exception of the front side and I was right it is actually displaying something right now which tells me there's probably some form of battery backup inside the device so in the event you power it down you're still gonna have that display functioning so that's pretty cool I wonder how long it lasts I mean if they shipped it with it and it's probably gonna last pretty long so I'm assuming if you travel with your drives or unplug them and put them on a shelf it's still gonna display what's on there and how much capacity remains here's a look at the back of the device we've got our power button two firewire 800 s USB our DC in and a Kensington lock be sure to check out our channel for unboxings galore