Spartacus09
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These have WD Reds in them that people pull out of the external caseGreat price! but I personally never had good luck with externals... always went out on me in 2 years or less...
This ~ Shucka'kahnThese have WD Reds in them that people pull out of the external case
This ~ Shucka'kahn
Though I'm pretty sure most of them are now the white label (which isn't an issue for most) comparable in almost every way to the WD Red down to the same firmware and 7 second TLER
One or more disks are overheating:
- WDC WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0 SCSI Disk Device - 113˚F (Maximum: 111.2˚F)
- Model: WDC WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0
Keep the enclosures in a closet and put a piece of tape on it with the date. Put them back together if you need the warranty, if not after 3 years throw out the enclosures. IIRC the SN on the enclosure = the SN on the HDD inside.What does this mean in terms of warranty if you schuck them?
No one has supposedly its a HGST manuf drive too, mines in a constant airflow environment regardless, not an issue for me.except the apparent threshold for temperature is something like 111*F
at least, according to StableBit Scanner
haven't been able to verify/validate that number.
Great price! but I personally never had good luck with externals... always went out on me in 2 years or less...
No one has supposedly its a HGST manuf drive too, mines in a constant airflow environment regardless, not an issue for me.
Keep the enclosures in a closet and put a piece of tape on it with the date. Put them back together if you need the warranty, if not after 3 years throw out the enclosures. IIRC the SN on the enclosure = the SN on the HDD inside.
but I imagine the fact that FTC has since said "warranty void if removed" type stuff is illegal (eg opening your Xbox or PS4 to dust is out), I don't think they can legally deny a warranty claim by simply shucking it.
I have been known to be wrong before, though.
Yeah I think if you have a red label drive, then it doesn't matter because the red label = retail drive and they can't tell the difference. AFAIK no one has tried to do a warranty on a bare white label drive, so at least for my own peace of mind, I am just holding onto the white label drive enclosures till the warranty expires. They are easy to put back together as they are to take apart and there are no stickers to show if you opened the cases so that isn't even an issue.I've read rumors/stories of business users shucking them and getting WD to replace them without the shell (these were the red label days though).
If you're using it as a NAS drive, they could technically argue its outside the standard use case of an external personal USB drive, anywho .
The serial numbers on the Red label drives come up as Easystore when you do the warranty check, so yes, they know that the drive is not a retail drive but an Easystore drive.Yeah I think if you have a red label drive, then it doesn't matter because the red label = retail drive and they can't tell the difference. AFAIK no one has tried to do a warranty on a bare white label drive, so at least for my own peace of mind, I am just holding onto the white label drive enclosures till the warranty expires. They are easy to put back together as they are to take apart and there are no stickers to show if you opened the cases so that isn't even an issue.
I've read rumors/stories of business users shucking them and getting WD to replace them without the shell (these were the red label days though).
If you're using it as a NAS drive, they could technically argue its outside the standard use case of an external personal USB drive, anywho .
Sweet then I guess I'm good.it'll basically work or it wont, the issue is that if there is power over the 3.3v rail it sends the drive a signal to sleep.
worst case some folks get the molex to sata adapter as thats a quick fix with no glueing needed
It really only affects the older PSU and servers, most modern backplanes are safe.Sweet then I guess I'm good.
I bought this PSU when I bought a GTX580. So I wasn't sure. Still going strong all these years.It really only affects the older PSU and servers, most modern backplanes are safe.
Currently on sale at microcenter showing same $150 price.. though only 1 per custumer.
Read about it here, the speculation is that they're essentially 2nd tier or refurbed drives, at least when they were red labels.I apologize as I'm sure this has been explained, but can someone break down for me how the cheapest way to get an 8TB drive is to purchase one that comes with a whole bunch of extra stuff? Basic logic says there should be retail $140 8TB drives out there, though that is obviously not the case.
Bring your friends, gf, wife, mother etc.Right when I was walking out the door with a wad of fun money in my wallet.... Thank you sir
Read about it here, the speculation is that they're essentially 2nd tier or refurbed drives, at least when they were red labels.
Edit: The new whites have the same fw and specs as the reds, personally I’m fine getting a refurb/2nd tier drive for 150$ (with a 2y warranty still) compared to the bare drive that only gets me 1 extra year of warranty anyway at almost twice that cost.
Bring your friends, gf, wife, mother etc.
Pretty much, even if the drives have 10-20% shorter life (which I don't think is the case) its still worth the cost reduction IMO.I have so many of these at this point I just haven't found a way to justify more but the price is so good for my nas.
Bring your friends, gf, wife, mother etc.
Probably not wise to bring these two on the same trip.Sat night.. buy them dinner with the money you saved heh
Probably not wise to bring these two on the same trip.
But on a serious note, any idea if this will connect to an XP machine? We use some older thin clients as file servers and have external 2tb drives we rotate out every so often, but it would be nice to have a single 8tb drive with all the 2tb volumes on it as well, even if it has to be multiple 2tb partitions. Thoughts?
This was my thinking as well unless GPT works for external drives or some other trickery is used such as 4k sectors reported vs 512, effectively increasing the limit from 2tb to 8tb, which I read somewhere earlier that I can't find now to post the link.I know 32 bit XP doesn't have GPT so max total you'd get out of the drive would be 2TB with that (even with multiple partitions it can only see that first 2).
I think they may have added a compatibility to the 64 bit late services packs, I can't remember 100% though.
Not really any need to shuck the drive for just backups. If you do shuck the drive you do have to contend with removing 3.3v from the SATA power connector. It is used to disable the drive for enterprise use and your PC won't recognize it if 3.3V is applied.I'll pick up another of these sometime this year as I want to back up my Kodi drive (which is why I bought my first one of these). I assume there isn't any benefit of shucking this if it's just for backup purposes right?
Not really any need to shuck the drive for just backups. If you do shuck the drive you do have to contend with removing 3.3v from the SATA power connector. It is used to disable the drive for enterprise use and your PC won't recognize it if 3.3V is applied.
The lowest its been is $140 during the BF deal in 2017 (but was a limit of 1), they've had several sales of $150 since then and are generally a limit of two (a manager let me take all 3 he had though in June).I just used an molex>sata adapter. This would only be for occasional backups so if for some reason the current one crashes I don't lose all the MKV files. I too an looking at black Friday like last year. Although I would have had better luck after that as I paid I think $160 and they came down to either $130 or $140 sometime after that. Great deal regardless.