Thanks for comments on 8TB HDDs
Its clear that external drives by WD are about $70US cheaper than bare drives (why - maybe capitalism?)
Any problem just busting the drive free? I don't need an external.
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just brew it! wrote:Another potential drawback is that some externals don't have a standard SATA drive inside (the drive is USB native).
Igor_Kavinski wrote:just brew it! wrote:Another potential drawback is that some externals don't have a standard SATA drive inside (the drive is USB native).
Personal experience with such a drive? Is it possible to use such a drive outside its enclosure?
JustAnEngineer wrote:The other “gotcha” to watch for when shucking drives is that some of them will fail to operate if they detect voltage from your motherboard on a certain pin. You may have to put a small piece of kapton tape over the pin on the hard-drive’s connector to fool it into working with a consumer motherboard.
Igor_Kavinski wrote:just brew it! wrote:Another potential drawback is that some externals don't have a standard SATA drive inside (the drive is USB native).
Personal experience with such a drive? Is it possible to use such a drive outside its enclosure?
Waco wrote:Don't buy Seagate external drives since they typically use SMR disks.