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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.
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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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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=9911
and
https://slickdeals.net/f/10049636-4tb-wd-easystore-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black-89-99-free-shipping?p=9912
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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Anyway, you have any proof of this? I'd really like to know. Or perhaps I just got lured in by troll bait...
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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this is not encrypted.
on WD drives that have encryption they cannot be read outside the enclosure itself. you would have to format to use the drive. again this one is not encrypted.
If you still like the idea of having a WD RED in an external, You could just shuck it, put it another known external non encrypting case and be set.
this case does not have encryption.
I still want to re-use the enclosure and put in a smaller HDD
this is not encrypted
that has been proved false. the drive is new on their site. most likely they posted on the wrong product about a 2.5inch drive. those seem to be soldered directly to the SATA ports and the 3.5 are spared that fate
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on WD drives that have encryption they cannot be read outside the enclosure itself. you would have to format to use the drive. again this one is not encrypted.
this case does not have encryption.
Someone a couple of pages back did a test that shows this almost certainly has encryption. I just want to know if it activates when you first power up the drive or when you install the software.
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WD security is not supported on this device from WD support website. However from the WD community, the WD security enables a software level password-based encryption, while the PCB allows a hardware level encryption. Even without WD security, the pcb will still encrypt the device for security.
If you only have one of these (if you have 2, a RAID 1 setup test is posted above) and want to know about the PCB thing, all you need to is dump some files into the external via usb. Shuck the hdd, replug it via any other interface and see if disk manager/explorer can locate the files you initially transferred. If you can successfully do this the enclosure pcb is not encrypting anything. If however you cannot access said files, but are able to access them when you reattach the pcb, then encryption is present through the pcb. For what I have tested on my personal unit that I got, the latter is the case. On a side note even installed WD discovery which recognized the External when plugged but couldnt find the internal directly plugged in.
There are workarounds posted on the forum for those technically inclined who soley want an external. For those who want just the internal RED, shuck and enjoy
Want to know this as well. Want to make sure i do the right procedure to put the red drives on my tvs-453. Thanks a lot
WD security is not supported on this device from WD support website. However from the WD community, the WD security enables a software level password-based encryption, while the PCB allows a hardware level encryption. Even without WD security, the pcb will still encrypt the device for security.
If you only have one of these (if you have 2, a RAID 1 setup test is posted above) and want to know about the PCB thing, all you need to is dump some files into the external via usb. Shuck the hdd, replug it via any other interface and see if disk manager/explorer can locate the files you initially transferred. If you can successfully do this the enclosure pcb is not encrypting anything. If however you cannot access said files, but are able to access them when you reattach the pcb, then encryption is present through the pcb. For what I have tested on my personal unit that I got, the latter is the case. On a side note even installed WD discovery which recognized the External when plugged but couldnt find the internal directly plugged in.
There are workarounds posted on the forum for those technically inclined who soley want an external. For those who want just the internal RED, shuck and enjoy
3TB Seagate: Plugged into WD PCB, wrote some files, disconnect, connect directly via SATA, read back the files, success.
4TB WD Red (Original drive): Plugged into WD PCB, wrote some files, disconnect, connect directly via SATA, read back the files, success.
Again, No Encryption detected. Unless mine is a super-duper special one, then I'll sell it on Ebay for the big buck$$$.
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I bought a few 4TB of that at $87 last week when it's discounted here at SD, but want to return it as the SMR drive is not good for used in NAS and I only want NAS which makes the WD easystore the ideal choice.
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