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Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drive: 20TB $270, 14TB

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Western Digital has Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drives on sale as listed below. Shipping is free.

Available:Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • High-capacity add-on storage.
  • Fast data transfers
  • Plug-and-play ready for Windows PCs

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Western Digital has Western Digital Elements USB 3.0 External Hard Drives on sale as listed below. Shipping is free.

Available:Thanks to Community Member captainguy for sharing this deal.

Features:
  • High-capacity add-on storage.
  • Fast data transfers
  • Plug-and-play ready for Windows PCs

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Written by citan359 | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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kenoarto
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why do I not believe this?
TwiceOver
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Only on some hardware. I pretty much exclusively use shucked drives and have never had to use the tape.

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Today 12:41 PM
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CrazyBuckeyeToday 12:41 PM
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I wonder if these can easily be shucked. If so, it's a good deal for some large (slow) storage for backups and such.
Answering my own question, from what I can tell these enclosures have WD140EDGZ drives in them, and they can be shucked and used without the enclosure.
Today 12:51 PM
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fordhamdudeToday 12:51 PM
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Quote from CrazyBuckeye :
I wonder if these can easily be shucked. If so, it's a good deal for some large (slow) storage for backups and such.
Answering my own question, from what I can tell these enclosures have WD140EDGZ drives in them, and they can be shucked and used without the enclosure.
They absolutely can, but you need to disable one of the pins with kapton tape.
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TwiceOverToday 01:04 PM
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Quote from fordhamdude :
They absolutely can, but you need to disable one of the pins with kapton tape.
Only on some hardware. I pretty much exclusively use shucked drives and have never had to use the tape.
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Quote from fordhamdude :
They absolutely can, but you need to disable one of the pins with kapton tape.
I'll add that I've never needed to do that with these. I just shuck the drives (about a 3 minute process) and stick them in my NAS.
Today 01:16 PM
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rayb02Today 01:16 PM
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will BF have lower prices on WD? already great price
Today 01:18 PM
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AngrynapkinToday 01:18 PM
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It's depends on the PSU you use or if your backplane supports these without having to use the tape.

I have a seasonic platinum 750w I think and I need to use the tape but my old server case with the backplane didn't.

I also only use these for my UnRaid server shucked. If you don't want to do the tape you can get adapters so I wouldn't worry about it.
Today 01:54 PM
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timur38Today 01:54 PM
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Last year I bought 3 hard drives from westerndigital store and they all were DOA.
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Today 02:28 PM
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StreetJediToday 02:28 PM
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This is what you data hoarders (like myself) have been waiting for. Yes, this is shuckable.

Same price at:
BestBuy
Amazon
Newegg
Adorama

https://www.westerndigital.com/pr...p1=3938566
Today 02:39 PM
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kenoartoToday 02:39 PM
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Quote from timur38 :
Last year I bought 3 hard drives from westerndigital store and they all were DOA.
why do I not believe this?
Today 02:45 PM
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timur38Today 02:45 PM
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Quote from kenoarto :
why do I not believe this?
Order and see yourself. Mine were shipped with zero padding with ups ground delivered which took like 7 days.
Today 02:50 PM
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KnockKnockWhosThereToday 02:50 PM
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Quote from CrazyBuckeye :
I wonder if these can easily be shucked. If so, it's a good deal for some large (slow) storage for backups and such.
Answering my own question, from what I can tell these enclosures have WD140EDGZ drives in them, and they can be shucked and used without the enclosure.
As many others have mentioned, yes you can. There are numerous guides on how to shuck them. There is also a community led Google doc that says which PSU models need the 3.3v mod.

Not sure if this is the most up to date version:
https://docs.google.com/spreadshe...A/htmlview
Today 03:06 PM
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GelOhPigToday 03:06 PM
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Quote from TwiceOver :
Only on some hardware. I pretty much exclusively use shucked drives and have never had to use the tape.
All shucked drives in all my synology NAS machines. Current one is a DS1019+. Never taped a pin. I am curious as to what hardware needs a taped pin...
Today 03:17 PM
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elefante72Today 03:17 PM
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Quote from timur38 :
Last year I bought 3 hard drives from westerndigital store and they all were DOA.
Obviously you needed to tape them.
Today 03:30 PM
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AquaLinen207Today 03:30 PM
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I always wonder why everyone is keen on shucking? Unless it's for or RAIS, what do u gain? A cleaner setup? There are generally drives at the same price/TB or less, with w 3-year warranty (not 1 that is likely voided). Plus, you can hookup a bunch of USB devices via splitter.or existing IO, but that's not the case for SATA - you'll end up needing an expansion card - which throws off the entire pricing model. Let me know peeps!

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Today 03:31 PM
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FrostyDToday 03:31 PM
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Quote from GelOhPig :
All shucked drives in all my synology NAS machines. Current one is a DS1019+. Never taped a pin. I am curious as to what hardware needs a taped pin...
Any NAS is going to handle this scenario fine. It's desktop computers that are more likely to have compatibility issues.

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