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I don't think so.
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I practically guarantee it! I've never seen an external hard drive that didn't contain an 'internal' drive inside. SATA is the standard these days. There's a 2.5 inch SATA drive inside....I promise.
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By the time WD was building the Elements line, they were soldering the drives to the interface to prevent shucking them. So nope, buy this only if you want a very small, used external drive with a...
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It is showing price of US $28.99. Is the deal dead? EDIT: Should've read the entire op.
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Of course is just a regular hard drive for laptop
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so this is a crap shoot basically?
how long would these last do you all think?
I can use for for temporary non critical data
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Displaying as sold out
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I took advantage of this sale a few weeks ago. I paid $105 total for 3, 2TB refurbished drives.
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Anyone know can this drive be removed and use a laptop
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doubtful, WD portables have integrated USB interfaces
really bad info, do some real research before promising :wave:
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Refurbished HHDs are the equivalent of "cleaned" used underwear. If your data is important, look elsewhere.
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Directly refurbished by WD, not some 3rd party.
WD could pass repaired HDDs for new for all we know
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For a while there some hard drvies, I think it was WD had usb soldered directly to the drives interface board
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Actually that's not what the questions get at. WD solders the USB board to the drive so you can't "harvest" the drive. Not sure if they have stopped this practice but they've done it past 10 years.
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3.5" drives, yes. 2.5" drives, no.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/9g0mo9/external_hdd_with_soldered_to_the_usb_connector/
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Why? That might be the single worst thing you could do with a shucked HDD.
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Refurb'ed hard drives...for those that do not value their data lol.
Seriously, 1, 2TB drives are cheap anyway these days. Why would anyone want to deal with this to save 20/30 dollars (if that)?
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Agree, and I don't buy refurb HDs. The refurb replacements I got over the years for the few HDs I've had die (and I've had some HDs run 24/7 for 5-10 years) all died within a year. I can't help think...
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It's a used hard drive, take it at that alone, nobody can give you a good answer for longevity.
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I think you mixed up with 3.5 drive😂.
Wd 2.5 external has embedded usb board to the hdd.
You are talking about 3.5 not 2.5 wd external drive
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Can you elaborate how I would set something up to backup my pictures folder on my laptop. Basically I have about 268GB of family pictures I’ve accumulated over the years. My current process is to...
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XBOX one drive. No brainer
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I'm slapping one on an over-the-air DVR. If it goes poof, it's no big deal to me.
As for backup, that is more iffy in my book. I back up my data to 3 different storage devices, two of them...
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This deal sucks.
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Refurbished: No.
Fugly-ass Yellow: Hell no.
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All 15% off WD items.
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Hard to look at these prices after those crazy Amazon hdd deals
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Will this work for a MacBook?
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Do these come infected with BadUSB or does that cost extra?
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$57.79 for a 4TB movie/tv show storage? In4one. Thanks.
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They cancelled my orders without notifying me. The orders just are gone from the history.
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The other colors are still available, for 1TB and 2TBs
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Buying a refurbished hard drive is like buying used underwear.... no good will come of it.
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It is real research! I own multiple WD Element drives along with misc other brands. They DO have a USB interface BUT that interface is nothing more than a dongle plugged into the SATA ports!
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I could definitely see them doing that. Although it's cheaper to utilize their barebones drives for their external cases. Hence why the vast majority of them utilize a dongle. Which is notorious for...
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You can't. Its economically unfeasible to refurbish. They're simply used. Worse, if they wiped the SMART data including the bad sector table to make it look "refurbished", you'd best run a pattern...
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One single drop while it is spinning, and drive is gone. Waiting for SSD to drop, and it is happening already.
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I have a few WD refurbs, they work great.
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Is there a warranty with the WD refurbished My Passport? I know it is a 3 year warranty for new. Unable to find anything on the listing except for 30 day returns.
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I am buying WD 2.5 in BLACK drive and external enclosure as portable HD. Usually WD put inferior drive into their portable line. WD black has 5 year warranty. The portable interfacecard can be bad...
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