Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:31 am
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@Scrotos
BTW, I was looking into some of these drives. Worth it to buy and just crack the case open and use as regular SATA drives? Anyone try that out?
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Yes, I did that. It works BUT the ones I did had a LOT of clicking (high sleep rate?).
Also could not update firmware. Seagate updater would not recognize them.
Once they are out of the case they show more then one partition. I reformated mine.
Have not tried to use the old enclosure as a general USB drive dock yet.
So don't know if just any drive or partition structure will function.
Good luck,
jmc2