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Last Edited by burner1515 April 21, 2017 at 07:07 AM
This drive does not use a proprietary connection and can be shucked for the bare drive fine. It will fit in your PC as a normal 3.5 inch SATA WD40EFRX (WD Red) Bare Drive drive would.

This drive does not have encryption on the pcb board itself.

Please see post

https://slickdeals.net/f/10049636-4tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-89-99-free-shipping?p=99111560#post99111560

and

https://slickdeals.net/f/10049636-4tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-89-99-free-shipping?p=99123296#post99123296

There are a few others, feel free to edit and add here.


If you shuck you lose the warranty. if you check the sn on the external enclosure, it is the same as the internal hard drive. When you register that SN it coems up as 'WD easystore Desktop' on their site. If you ever have to send it in for warranty service you have to put it back in the enclosure. They will know you opened the enclosure and will void the warranty.


IF for some reason WD's site said it was a bare nas drive, they would still not honor the warranty because your receipt shows you bought a external hard drive. You need a receipt for the bare drive. Really silly I need to explain this IF situation.



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At $22.5 per terabyte this is pretty decent.
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LOL, are you suggesting Western Digital would use Seagate drives inside their external drives? I guess that would be physically possible, but would make no financial sense; why buy a competitors drive and incur the overhead costs of their manufacturing process???

Anyway, you have any proof of this? I'd really like to know. Or perhaps I just got lured in by troll bait... shake head
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So I went to the store because I have some in-store only coupons. However, the coupon won't work because their internal store price is higher ($109) and had to do a price adjustment. No luck on that.

Upon plugging it in, Hard Disk Sentinel reports that the model ID is WD40EFRX-68N32N0. Google searches indicate that it's a Red drive. YMMV.
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shimian5
04-13-2017 at 04:50 PM.
04-13-2017 at 04:50 PM.
someone on reddit confirmed that inside is just a plain SATA drive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc...e/dg8fqib/
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brtdud7
04-13-2017 at 04:54 PM.
04-13-2017 at 04:54 PM.
I read the stuff you guys have said about some connector issue.

If I have no plans to remove the hard drive and will just use this strictly as an external (I connect it to my FireTV to play content on my TV), I can just ignore this issue you guys are bringing up right?
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NasStan
04-13-2017 at 04:54 PM.
04-13-2017 at 04:54 PM.
Quote from MBaran :
someone on reddit confirmed that inside is just a plain SATA drive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc...e/dg8fqib/ [reddit.com]
that is why this has a lower the price compared to other SSD drives
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shimian5
04-13-2017 at 04:58 PM.
04-13-2017 at 04:58 PM.
Quote from NasStan :
that is why this has a lower the price compared to other SSD drives
I don't follow.
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04-13-2017 at 05:00 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:00 PM.
Quote from brtdud7 :
I read the stuff you guys have said about some connector issue.

If I have no plans to remove the hard drive and will just use this strictly as an external (I connect it to my FireTV to play content on my TV), I can just ignore this issue you guys are bringing up right?
Yes, you can ignore all that static, it only applies if you want to crack it open to use as an internal drive.
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SpartanOneX
04-13-2017 at 05:01 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:01 PM.
Will this fit my virtual porn collection?
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04-13-2017 at 05:04 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:04 PM.
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Will this fit my virtual porn collection?
unfortunately, discussing about porn and other related issues are not allowed there
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04-13-2017 at 05:07 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:07 PM.
Quote from NasStan :
unfortunately, discussing about porn and other related issues are not allowed there
Oh, sorry, my bad.....I'll just go to that holly madison site and lurk there....
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04-13-2017 at 05:18 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:18 PM.
Will this work on the PS4? I have a WD 2tb that it won't take for some reason.
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04-13-2017 at 05:35 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:35 PM.
Quote from hatster :
Will this work on the PS4? I have a WD 2tb that it won't take for some reason.
on it, like literally yes. in, probably not. some say it has proprietary connectors so i would just use it in the case it is already in.

edit: worst case scenario, if it doesn't (and you didn't' open it up) return it.
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04-13-2017 at 05:40 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:40 PM.
Quote from Eragorn :
on it, like literally yes. in, probably not. some say it has proprietary connectors so i would just use it in the case it is already in.

I've tried several externals and ps4 wont take any.
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04-13-2017 at 05:40 PM.
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04-13-2017 at 05:49 PM.
04-13-2017 at 05:49 PM.
Quote from hatster :
I've tried several externals and ps4 wont take any.
after the newest update, ps4 should....

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-...1793125365
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04-13-2017 at 06:11 PM.
04-13-2017 at 06:11 PM.
Quote from MBaran :
someone on reddit confirmed that inside is just a plain SATA drive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc...e/dg8fqib/ [reddit.com]
Just got back home ready to crack open all 4 of them, good to hear the heads up.
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04-13-2017 at 06:15 PM.
04-13-2017 at 06:15 PM.
Quote from MBaran :
I don't follow.
I think he/she meant the misunderstanding/rumo about SATA/soldered interface plus where the encryption works have made the this drive such a discount deal.

Lesson learnt, in the future if one likes a product but prefers a discount, spreading the rumor and scare the potential buyer away.
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