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Best Buy.com has 4TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive (WDBCKA0040HBK-NESN) for $89.99. Shipping is free or select free store pickup where available. Thanks slickdewmaster
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Last Edited by burner1515
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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.
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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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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I'm sure we all assumed this, but wanted to share.
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And like I stated in my previous post, I connected via USB (no evidence of encryption), ran Diskpart to wipe and convert the drive to GPT, then used disk management to format NTFS standard volume. It took approx 2 minutes.
Did you power on the external enclosure before removing the drive? If so, did you install any of the WD software?
I bought a total of 5 (three from one store, and two from another - due to best buy's non-business purchase limitations) and they all turned out to be Western Digital Reds. The bare drive does show it has a 2 year warranty, but it's description is "WD easystore Desktop" with a model number of "WDBCKA0040HBK" when you do a warranty check on the WD website.
All of mine are model: WD40EFRX & have NASware 3.0, with a mfg. date of March 2nd, 2017.
This thing requires its own power brick. Definitely not portable to me. If it was a 3.5" drive and was USB-powered i'd allow it.
WD's do not traditionally have proprietary connectors. There was a line of 2.5" externals that had the usb connector directly on the HDD PCB but this was a very small subset of their product line.
Show me a external drive with a 3.5" drive inside that is only USB powered.
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Excellent to hear. Thanks!
With the PCB all data on the HDD were readly available.
I trust the multiple others who shucked their drives are telling the truth that they were ALL readable outside the enclosure. Data was put on when inside the enclosure over the pcb, moved to a internal sata on their PC, and it was readable.
Go back and do your test with screen shots if you want but your not talking about this drive.
There is too much evidence this drive lacks the encryption of the my book line. Why put extra cost in what should be their bottom barrel cheapest external drive/enclosures? beyond me why they used reds. prob a very bad batch justifying them selling it so cheap.
If you shuck the drive the SN on the bare drive is the exact same as the external enclosure. if you try to make a warranty claim they are only going to warranty the external enclosure with the bare drive inside, untampered. It's obvious when you shuck these drives even if you make it look clean later.
Either way they will not honor the warranty if you shuck. Even if that said wd red nas instead of easy store external on their site, they would want a receipt for a wd red nas, not a easy store.
I normally would be fine with clarifying things here, but EVERYONE has selective hearing in this thread. So noting this is a newer version of a my book is just going to add to confusion. I am not sure this is supposed to be a new version of that line especially with the different name.
Bottom line this is an easy store and many posts show no encryption this one is most helpful and should be TU'd
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One guy is going around screaming it has encryption and that they bought it, but they keep saying they are not a tech and they are copy/pasting from other websites that are not talking about this drive.
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