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expired Posted by sr71 • Mar 5, 2021
Mar 5, 2021 6:23 AM
8TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
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= It's easy to remove the internal SATA drive for use without the USB enclosure
"in a non-destructible way "
= You can remove it without destroying the enclosure, so if you wanted or needed to, you could put it back the way it was and it would be difficult or impossible to tell that you had ever taken it apart
"for NAS or other use"
= Many people take the internal drives from these and put them in a NAS because these are typically good drives and much cheaper than buying the bare drive would be
"using a cut-up gift card or other plastic."
= The enclosure can be removed using anything similar to a plastic gift card, hotel room key, etc. YouTube has a ton of how-to videos for "Shucking" drives
"If you are susceptible to the 3.3v pin problem, it's easy enough to circumvent. "
= Some people (typically with older power supplies or older NAS units) may encounter a problem where the SATA power plug doesn't comply with the newer SATA spec that the drives expect. This is easily worked-around by using a small piece of Kapton tape or using a SATA power extension cable. Google if you need to do this.
"Last time I got essentially an Ultrastar Data Center drive in it."
= Many people get higher end drives inside these Easystore enclosures, the bare drives sometimes would cost 2x to >3x the cost of the Easystore drives.
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The EDAZ has been discovered to be an enterprise level drive (not by me), so I wouldn't worry about it's reliability. The fact that it runs warm also doesn't mean it's always in a danger zone. It's just not a "cool" drive.
I doubt this would be any different.
The main point of my reply/question was the fact that every time these drives go on sale, it is always posted that new power supplies will not have an issue but I think that is the exact opposite. From what I've read, unless you have a power supply made specifically for a network environment, you will have the issue.
In my experience it's variable. I picked up 2 10TB drives a few years back, both the same exact model. On the exact same PSU, one needed the modification, and the other didn't. My pet theory is that this is the PWDIS test that fails them out of enterprise into these enclosures.
From what I can gather, even the white labels still seem to be WD Red enterprise or NAS system drives, just relabeled. Is this not the case anymore?
Thanks for any info!
In your case, they could have just made the voltage change in mid model production and decided it wasn't worth it to give it a new model number. My first shucked drive was a red drive and it works fine on all power supplies, but all the rest I've gotten since have been white label and none of them have worked without a mod.
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more likely to to be one of the UltraStar DC's
what will vary is the He attribute
the Red is really for folks who want to resell to less knowledgeable folks buying these for a premium online.
From what I can gather, even the white labels still seem to be WD Red enterprise or NAS system drives, just relabeled. Is this not the case anymore?
Thanks for any info!
From what I can gather, even the white labels still seem to be WD Red enterprise or NAS system drives, just relabeled. Is this not the case anymore?
Thanks for any info!
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