1058:0901 — My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U)

This is the USB identifier for a My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U) manufactured by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. The vendor ID 1058 is registered to Western Digital Technologies, Inc. with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0901 is the product ID that Western Digital Technologies, Inc. assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 1058:0901 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U).

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1058:0901 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 1058:0901, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 1058:0901. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=1058, idProduct=0901.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_1058&PID_0901
USB\VID_1058&PID_0901&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_1058&PID_0901"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U):
      Product ID: 0x0901
      Vendor ID: 0x1058  (Western Digital Technologies, Inc.)

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

1058  Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
	0901  My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U)

• 1058:0824 My Passport Slim (WDBPDZ)
• 1058:0830 My Passport Ultra (WDBZFP)
• 1058:0837 My Passport Ultra (WDBBKD)
• 1058:0900 MyBook Essential External HDD
• 1058:0902 My Book Pro Edition (WDG1T)
• 1058:0903 My Book Premium Edition
• 1058:0905 My Book Pro Edition II (WD10000C033-001)
• 1058:0910 My Book Essential Edition (Green Ring) (WDG1U)

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