I ordered a new Dell T30 server at Christmas along with 3 of these drives. Two were White and one was Red. The White labels wouldn't spin. I had seen all of the suggestions of tape or adaptors, but the easy answer is just deplug the 3.3V wire from the harness at the source connector, not the...
Just to recap this long thread - if you end up with a white label that has 256MB cache, if you're putting it into a case with the SATA reset pin power supply, it shouldn't matter if you didn't get a red label with 256MB cache, right? I just bought a new Dell T30 server to put a few of these...
I know they have Google Drive, but if I'm wanting to listen to something when I hop in the car, last thing I want to do is go through a massive library and wait for a download. Plus, then you're eating data consumption constantly swapping music on & off your device unless you only do that while...