WD Easystore External Discussion

Did you just buy them in store? The online store says limit 2 per customer.

Yea I went to the store chatted up the cute girl in the computer section and convinced her to let me get them at the same time so I didnt have to go to different stores all day long. They are normally pretty cool about it if you chat with them first.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...
i don't know i did not bother trying with mine i did not even get it in the house before it got shucked... Going to get another if the sale/stock lasts till payday
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...
Tested mine on three pcs at once, all using usb 3.0 ports so it wouldn't take forever. I'd be suspect of your usb 3 ports if it isn't even detected.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...

Do other USB 3 devices work ok?
If not, check for correct drivers.

Are you using a USB 3 extension cable?
If so, try direct to a USB 3 port on the mobo.

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Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...

No problems here with the USB3 enclosure working. I shucked one to put inside a desktop to run as a temporary Plex/Usenet/storage system and have a second connected externally so I can backup the data.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive?

I am using my 2 as externals which are parity drives for snapraid. This is under linux. No issues with them yet. Since it is a core2quad system I have a PCIe card that provides the USB3.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...
Picked up a third one a couple weeks ago. As others have already mentioned it works fine on USB 3. Averaged about 155MB/s transferring about 3.5TB of large video files. No boost it appears though.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...

Using mine to hold my movies while I rebuild my ZFS. Connected to USB3 on WIndows 10 and copied around 6.7TB of data. Stay pegged at ~95MB/s second for about 22 hours. I usually see ~105MB/s when transferring between same 2 computers from SATA to SATA.....so not sure if that was a drive issue or protocol issue.
 
Does anyone use these as an actual USB drive? I got one a week ago and it works fine on USB 2 but will not detect on USB 3. This is on Win 7.

Anyone else have this issue?

Dan...

I didn't test the drive in the enclosure but I did use the electronics to copy stuff from 2 other drives via USB3.
 
Careful everyone, they are now starting to ship with Red's relabeled White they are Wd80EMAZ the issue with them is that they DO NOT work outside of the enclosure. They drive does not spin up for some reason. No matter what PSU or setup I used it would not spin up. Thankfully I was able to take the one easystore that came with that drive back and get an EFAX. Just a warning for those that got drives but havnt looked inside yet.
 
Careful everyone, they are now starting to ship with Red's relabeled White they are Wd80EMAZ the issue with them is that they DO NOT work outside of the enclosure. They drive does not spin up for some reason. No matter what PSU or setup I used it would not spin up. Thankfully I was able to take the one easystore that came with that drive back and get an EFAX. Just a warning for those that got drives but havnt looked inside yet.

Thanks. I cancelled mine.
 
Careful everyone, they are now starting to ship with Red's relabeled White they are Wd80EMAZ the issue with them is that they DO NOT work outside of the enclosure. They drive does not spin up for some reason. No matter what PSU or setup I used it would not spin up. Thankfully I was able to take the one easystore that came with that drive back and get an EFAX. Just a warning for those that got drives but havnt looked inside yet.

Any other info? Box changes? UPC changes? PCB changes? Anything other than the label on the drive?
 
Any other info? Box changes? UPC changes? PCB changes? Anything other than the label on the drive?
Just get the EMAZ drives. Either use molex-sata adapters or remove/insulate the orange 3.3v.

You could go for Made in China drives but that'd get you the inferior 128mb EFZX.

edit: are sata pins single-sided? If so, you could easily cover the 3.3v ones with nail polish for a reversible fix. Or electrical tape. The 3 pins on the L side (inside) are 3.3v.
 
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Any other info? Box changes? UPC changes? PCB changes? Anything other than the label on the drive?


They are the exact same. No differences on the outside of the box.

Just get the EMAZ drives. Either use molex-sata adapters or remove/insulate the orange 3.3v.

You could go for Made in China drives but that'd get you the inferior 128mb EFZX.

edit: are sata pins single-sided? If so, you could easily cover the 3.3v ones with nail polish for a reversible fix. Or electrical tape. The 3 pins on the L side (inside) are 3.3v.


As Ziddey says you can do this but I found it to be unreliable at best, and the little I found online regarding the issue others said it was hit and miss if it actually worked.
 
Careful everyone, they are now starting to ship with Red's relabeled White they are Wd80EMAZ the issue with them is that they DO NOT work outside of the enclosure. They drive does not spin up for some reason. No matter what PSU or setup I used it would not spin up. Thankfully I was able to take the one easystore that came with that drive back and get an EFAX. Just a warning for those that got drives but havnt looked inside yet.

Is this from personal experience or where did you come across this information?

~RF
 
Thanks for the info. Really has me baffled. All my other USB 3 work fine on the ports. It is just the easystore. Even odder is if I use USB 2 extension cable on the USB 3 port. Drive will work fine. It is only when I switch to a USB 3 extension cable it won't work.

I going to try plunging it in directly tonight. Would have done it sooner but it is pain to do on my box due to location.

Dan...



Using mine to hold my movies while I rebuild my ZFS. Connected to USB3 on WIndows 10 and copied around 6.7TB of data. Stay pegged at ~95MB/s second for about 22 hours. I usually see ~105MB/s when transferring between same 2 computers from SATA to SATA.....so not sure if that was a drive issue or protocol issue.
 
Inside the enclosure is this SATA3? Anyone have experience with pulling the drive out of the box and putting it internal?

Might finally be time to put that USB port on my router to use.

Wonder how slow network access would be?

Not gonna put many games or large apps like Office, movies and music? Other data? Would 4k stream ok throughout the apartment?
 
Inside the enclosure is this SATA3? Anyone have experience with pulling the drive out of the box and putting it internal?

Might finally be time to put that USB port on my router to use.

Wonder how slow network access would be?

Not gonna put many games or large apps like Office, movies and music? Other data? Would 4k stream ok throughout the apartment?
The throughput would be entirely dependent on the model of router. Odds are it will be slower than you would be happy with for streaming 4k video.
 
the one i got had a wd80efax red label. i am hoping i get another...
 
The throughput would be entirely dependent on the model of router. Odds are it will be slower than you would be happy with for streaming 4k video.

Uhhh if we are talking hard disk through put and raw network throughput, those are easily and order of magnitude higher than what is needed for 4k video. Wifi is a completely different story. Theoretically something as old as 802.11n is fast enough, but you really need high quality gear, because most things claiming to implement standards actually fall short.
 
Uhhh if we are talking hard disk through put and raw network throughput, those are easily and order of magnitude higher than what is needed for 4k video. Wifi is a completely different story. Theoretically something as old as 802.11n is fast enough, but you really need high quality gear, because most things claiming to implement standards actually fall short.
wifi can be glitchy with streaming movies even with 802.11ac. I have to stream my BD rips through 1GbE instead if 866Mbps AC because the wireless looses sync in streaming for whatever reason. AC goes 30-40MBps but it always desyncs audio :/
 
Uhhh if we are talking hard disk through put and raw network throughput, those are easily and order of magnitude higher than what is needed for 4k video. Wifi is a completely different story. Theoretically something as old as 802.11n is fast enough, but you really need high quality gear, because most things claiming to implement standards actually fall short.
I was speaking more to the low quality usb controller found on most routers, there's a good chance they won't sustain a high enough speed. Probably burst fast enough but it's all about sustained speeds in this regard. Hey maybe it'll work, someone give it a try?

Again depending on the router, it may not be up to the task. Here's some results of decent routers being tested, as you can see they don't go nearly as fast as when plugged into a desktop https://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wir...etgear-r7000-a-asus-rt-ac68u?showall=&start=1
 
WZR-1750DHP
My phone/tablet use the wifi, everything else including my main monitor are connected via gigabit ethernet.
 
From the notes way at the bottom of the user manual :

Available file systems for USB hard drives are FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, and XFS.

Odd that XFS is thrown in - must be part of the linux hiding under the GUI in the modem.

From wikipedia:
XFS is a 64-bit file system[21] and supports a maximum file system size of 8 exbibytes minus one byte (263 − 1 bytes), but limitations imposed by the host operating system can decrease this limit. 32-bit Linux systems limit the size of both the file and file system to 16 tebibytes.

As long as the router handles the XFS it should file share just fine is my guess. Might have to install a linux VM or some such to format the thing XFS though.
 
wifi can be glitchy with streaming movies even with 802.11ac. I have to stream my BD rips through 1GbE instead if 866Mbps AC because the wireless looses sync in streaming for whatever reason. AC goes 30-40MBps but it always desyncs audio :/

I was speaking more to the low quality usb controller found on most routers,

Oh shoot I completely missed that detail. Yeah, I have a feeling most routers are not going to perform well for 4k streaming here.

Also I forget that streaming stability has a lot to do with clients. A good client with a big enough buffer can handle a crappy stream like that hosted by a router.
 
Oh shoot I completely missed that detail. Yeah, I have a feeling most routers are not going to perform well for 4k streaming here.

Also I forget that streaming stability has a lot to do with clients. A good client with a big enough buffer can handle a crappy stream like that hosted by a router.
this is with R7000s too and a perfect signal since the wifi is 2 feet from my laptop
 
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