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Last Edited by timmmah
August 25, 2017
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07:22 AM
These drives can be shucked. They will have either a WD80EFZX or WD80EMAZ. Both drives are WD Reds and have the same specs.
There are some Reds from China that appear to only have 128MB Cache vs the 256MB Thailand drives. An easy way to tell which is to look at the label on the bottom of the box it will say either "Product of Thailand or Product of China"
The 128MB and the 256MB cache drives perform the same.
To verify the drive inside without opening run CrystalDiskInfo:
https://crystalmark.inf
Shucking instructions:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/attachment.php?
There are some Reds from China that appear to only have 128MB Cache vs the 256MB Thailand drives. An easy way to tell which is to look at the label on the bottom of the box it will say either "Product of Thailand or Product of China"
The 128MB and the 256MB cache drives perform the same.
To verify the drive inside without opening run CrystalDiskInfo:
https://crystalmark.inf
Shucking instructions:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/attachment.php?
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I bought 9 drives. 6 are the EFAX 256MB Cache Thailand models with red labels, and 3 are the EMAZ 256MB Cache Thailand models with white labels.
After testing them all, I want to make sure this point is loud and clear:
The white label EMAZ 8TB drives are NOT refurbs,
they ARE red drives,
they DO have TLER, and
they DO have 256MB cache.
Just because they have white stickers doesn't mean jack, so people need to stop spreading misinformation. What I think happened was WD got wind of everyone buying them up to shuck so they wanted to make sure the drives were visually easy to distinguish from the retail drives, and thus, they get white labels now. Doesn't matter what line they are from - Red, Blue - bare not-for-retail drives destined for external enclosures are being white labeled now.
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