So about this 3.3 Volt deal with Hard drives

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jordan12

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So I shucked a drive from an external to use in my NAS. The drive shows green, but my NAS does not see it. So I bought an actual Enterprise NAS drive last night. But worried that this drive might also have this issue.

Reading up on this 3.3 deal worries me. Do all new drives have this? Should I try and buy an older 8TB drive for the NAS?

Or is it for the external drives only?
 
just put a piece of tape over the the 3v pin and they should work fine. It's very simple and easily reversible.

I have only encountered this on shucked drives. None of the WD Golds or Hitachi Equivalents I have used do this.
 
Here is the official WDC PDF on the PWDIS "feature". Most new higher end power supplies ship with SATA cables that omit the 3.3v pin, but if you do decide to do the tape trick order some good Kapton tape as it is more likely to stay in place longer term
 
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