Do you still need to cover a pin in order to get windows to properly recognize the bare drive or do these drives "just work" without having to cut a trace or cover something with tape?
Do you still need to cover a pin in order to get windows to properly recognize the bare drive or do these drives "just work" without having to cut a trace or cover something with tape?
I've never needed to do any work with the pins on these ones, either in my older homegrown Windows server or in my newer Synology.
Do you still need to cover a pin in order to get windows to properly recognize the bare drive or do these drives "just work" without having to cut a trace or cover something with tape?
Yes, if your power supply is providing 3.3v to pin 3 then one of the fixes is needed.
I ordered 2 of these a couple months ago at $139.99. Both were air-filled (EDAZ). Probably not a big deal—still CMR, they just run a bit hotter—but I wound up returning for a pair of 8TB Elements, which I got for about $123 each with a student discount straight from WD. Those ones were helium (EMAZ), and are running great.
I got (4) EDAZ non-helium "runs hot" drives from Best Buy when this was a deal a few days ago. Shucked all 4 into a small RAID 10 enclosure.. 4 of em' next to each other. But I've got adequate cooling across the drives so I'm not worried at all. Here's to hoping they don't die anytime soon.
EDIT: Ugh bought (1) more justttt in case they discontinue these things or something 🤣
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FYI, ordered 4 drives last time. Got 3 whites with helium (80 EZAZ). One without helium (80EDAZ) and it ran noticeably hotter.
Sorry my bad, removed that statement, must be too sleepy! Heh..
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EDIT: Ugh bought (1) more justttt in case they discontinue these things or something 🤣