WD My Book gets wrapped in leather, just like a real book

Not that we haven't seen this game played before, but this demonstration is definitely the best we've seen amongst the tech book puns. Put as simply as possible, one talented modder has wrapped his Western Digital My Book NAS drive in beautiful leather and stacked it fittingly on his bookshelf. Aside from that glowing ring, you probably couldn't tell which of the above was filled with paper and which was filled with, um, really important tax documents. Check the read link for loads more shots and plenty of inspiration.

[Via technabob]

[Casey @ May 12th 2009 7:08PM]

Except for one issue, you will here it before you enter the room if it's the 1TB version,

[Joseph @ May 12th 2009 8:24PM]

Pretty sure my grandma showed me this link last week. Yeah...this news is that old. That makes 2 in 1 day.

[OneLove @ May 13th 2009 12:07PM]

we just love the skin of dead animals...eewww.

[William Barnett @ May 12th 2009 7:11PM]

And where is all that heat going to go ay?

[Andrew88 @ May 12th 2009 7:15PM]

The leather was taken a from a Romance Novel.

[Wormbolt @ May 12th 2009 8:29PM]

Guess who's drive is going to smell like a hamburger?

[mugupo @ May 12th 2009 7:13PM]

One major draw back, unlike book that had no problem will fall, if mybook fall it might easily broke.

[Andrew88 @ May 12th 2009 7:14PM]

Should've used nicer aged leather, that looks like shit.

[veesofnaught @ May 12th 2009 7:32PM]

"Shit" might be going a little too far. I'd say more like medieval toilet paper with "krusties"

[MeanSpyvie @ May 12th 2009 7:33PM]

Yawn...

I once placed a 16G SDHC card in a standard business envelope, this resulted in a paper envelope that held 16 gigs! Wanting a more compact mod I then removed the card from the envelope and simply glued a portion of the address label right to the SDHC card. It looked cool... but then my GF threw it away.

Now there is this trash can in my kitchen that holds 16 gigs....

[modified @ May 12th 2009 9:40PM]

Was that supposed to be funny?

[r3loaded @ May 12th 2009 7:36PM]

Gigabytes of tax pron?

[XIYL @ May 13th 2009 12:34AM]

"Now that we're done with my taxes, I'd like you to help me with my sexual inhibitions."

[Tony @ May 12th 2009 7:41PM]

Those things already run hot, im sure this drive will be dead in less than a week.

[robcarshalton @ May 12th 2009 7:56PM]

I second this... my 500gb drive died when laid flat like the above picture in less than 6 months. They have to be vertical due to vent positioning, don't make the same mistake :D

[Setnev @ May 13th 2009 1:20AM]

Good advice. I just bought a MyBook WE 500GB on clearance for less than 30 bux and when i got it home i figured i could put it under my MyBook 640GB and it overheated in less than a day. Now i have them standing next to each other vertically and havent had a problem with my NAS since with overheating.

[Philster @ May 12th 2009 7:59PM]

The leather wrap looks great, but will it stop WD MyBooks from randomly un-mounting... a lot... even when used as a startup?

[Milt @ May 13th 2009 12:16AM]

Dude, you guys must chug the hater-ade.

It looks great. I dig the aged look too. If any of negative commentators went to the link they would see the book still has ventilation.

[robcarshalton @ May 13th 2009 6:11AM]

It's not the absence of ventilation, it's the positioning of the unit (horizontally). Like that heat just rises up to the top of the case heating it up and the drive, eventually burning it out

[Q Is So FoCuseD @ May 13th 2009 12:56AM]

It looks like the leather was taken from a old saddle.. An extra crappy one at that.

[Deck @ May 13th 2009 3:08AM]

Looks pretty damn good to me. I would be worried about heating issues though...

[tlarkin79 @ May 13th 2009 9:11AM]

PETA approved?

[tc @ May 13th 2009 4:52PM]

leather is dead skin, as you already know.