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Drive makes a noise every few seconds when it should be idle; an older My Book doesn't do this. Also, the software install hung and there are multiple reports online of the exact same behavior.
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WD 12TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive $169.57 at Amazon
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The largest drives in my storage setup ARE used for backups, never primary storage. For primary storage, I go with drives that have 5 yr vendor warranties. That shows the vendor believes in the...
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Lol. K
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Huh? Bluetooth is hardly a robust networking protocol to move large blocks of data. It's for earphones and speakers and has very limited range highly subject to interference.
WD 12TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive $169.57 at Amazon
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Sold & shipped by Amazon, new, 4-5 weeks delivery. I just checked again. $224 from a different seller is on the main page, but the Amazon option's still available under "Other sellers on Amazon."...
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😱 so maybe for certain people then? What seller is it from?
WD 12TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive $169.57 at Amazon
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It says $169.57 for me. Three whole cents cheaper!
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Deal just be dead.. it's showing up $224 for me.
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Exactly. Some people are worried about SMR, helium/air, some about PWDIS, others about disabling encryption on certain MyBooks, etc.
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Yup, most decent laptops with HDDs were shipping with fall/G sensors to protect mechanical drives. At this point though, SSDs are more common so it isn't really necessary.
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No, if you read and processed my post, you'd see that I told them to ask the question they really want answered.
They asked "is it shuckable" (which is always yes for these) but really wanted to...
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100% correct!
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Lastwraith brings up a good point.
The question "are these shuckable" is usually asked for more than one reason.
Usually, people are asking if they can be shucked and then used in a separate...
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Buying two of the same exact drive to use one as a backup for the other is never recommended (not including RAID+1 in this).
What if both drives had some fatal flaw that doesn't show up until...
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I bought a new Dell PC that had a hard drive that disengages the read/write heads when a fall is sensed. 3rd day of ownership my dog went under my desk and knocked it onto the floor. Hard drive was...
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Buy 2 - use 1 as a mirror.
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May i suggest velcro... and a taser..
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You just helped someone and then yelled at them for asking a question. Thinking about that for a minute. I'd say most SD folks don't want that kind of toxic nonsense.
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enterprise model?
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Are these SMR?
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