StoleMyOwnCar
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... Wait this deal is still ongoing? Like...it's getting to be just normal now lol...
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It's 150. It was 10 or 20 less a few weeks back.... Wait this deal is still ongoing? Like...it's getting to be just normal now lol...
I put my Hitachi 1TB drive in the enclosure and Windows doesn't detect it when plugged in. It sees the USB interface (Easystore), but the drive inside can't be manipulated in any way.
There's a hack to get these WD controller boards to work with any hard drive.
http://macandegg.com/2017/04/hack-use-hard-drives-western-digital-book-enclosure/
There's a hack to get these WD controller boards to work with any hard drive.
http://macandegg.com/2017/04/hack-use-hard-drives-western-digital-book-enclosure/
I'll be sure to try that this weekend and report back! I wish I didn't button up the enclosure already
Just went in to my local BB and they had 2 in store, both made in Thailand. Since I wanted to pay with PayPal, I had to put the order in online and they'll only be ready for pick up tomorrow… #sadpanda
If I can convince the missus, I might try to snag 3 more before the price goes back up for my new NAS. $149+tax is not the best price ever but it's a pretty good price anyway, especially if they are all WD Reds with 256MB cache!
I'll report back after I test 'e and shuck 'em!
Shell has the same S/N as the drive that came with it, so if you think you need the enclosure to get warranty work, you probably the one that matches the drive s/nAll 3 are WD80EFAX, WD Reds with 256Mb cache (from Thailand). I shucked them already, which was REALLY easy using the 4+1 system (just used an old card, cut 1/3 out for the "leverage" piece, and then cut the other 2/3 in 4 squares pieces for the pegs).
Ran WD's Lifeguard Diagnostics Extended test on 1 of them, and it was good (took nearly ~20hrs btw). Still waiting to buy the motherboard/cpu/memory that'll go into making this NAS. Working on that now.
As for warranty, I'm keeping the original enclosures, though I might just keep one though since the odds of 2 failing at the same time HAVE to be low (especially since I'm gonna be doing RAIDZ1, which means 1 drive redundancy ). FWIW, these serial numbers give me less than 1-year warranty since WD looks at manufacturing dates and these were manufactured May/June of this year. I'm guessing BB's receipt will take care of the "extra" few months. Honestly, drives can fail at any time, but I've never had a drive fail "naturally" after a few months and then within warranty. Besides, WD's warranty is impeccable (which is why I only buy WD). I've RMA'ed 3 drives, 2 of them I suspect a faulty AC adapter on an external eSATA enclosure (almost 10 years ago) killed, and WD didn't bat an eye and advanced replaced them! That stuff is priceless IMO!
Shell has the same S/N as the drive that came with it, so if you think you need the enclosure to get warranty work, you probably the one that matches the drive s/n
Went to BB today, bought 8 drives, 6 are EFAX, 1 DOA, 1 EMAZ, and 1 WTF. See image.
DOA unit shows in windows hardware manager, cannot see it in crystal disk and cannot do anything in disk manager with it.
Are you able to confirm the cache amount on the EMZZ?Huh, so just another PN for white. For my usecase that should be a-okay.
great, thanks.128mb on WD80EMZZ
If I order them online and they come in to the store, and I go to pick them up, can I return them if they aren't 256mb cache ones?
I'm planning to use all 4 in a Synology NAS - should I try and just get reds or are the whites ok?256mb red or white.
Just went in to my local BB and they had 2 in store, both made in Thailand. Since I wanted to pay with PayPal, I had to put the order in online and they'll only be ready for pick up tomorrow… #sadpanda
If I can convince the missus, I might try to snag 3 more before the price goes back up for my new NAS. $149+tax is not the best price ever but it's a pretty good price anyway, especially if they are all WD Reds with 256MB cache!
I'll report back after I test 'e and shuck 'em!
I'm planning to use all 4 in a Synology NAS - should I try and just get reds or are the whites ok?
I took the one white label one that failed to complete a burst plot. Guy at the counter told me to go back and grab another one and he'd do the paper work. Spent about 10 minutes digging through the stack of 40 they had. All were made in Thailand, but none of the serial numbers matched the list of red's on page one. So I just grabbed a random one. Got home, and it was a red label (serial 7SGGBREC in case someone wants to add that to the first post). Guess I got lucky. Thinking about going back and just picking up all 40 or however many they have now, and then return all the ones that turn out to be white label ones. I already have 24 6TB Red label ones and another 15 or so 8TB that are all Red label ones, so I'd like to keep it that way going forward. Yes, I'm OCD. But with that one white drive failing, I'm a little gun shy about picking those up again.
Not sure what plotting is, but all three of my white label drives passed bad blocks without incident.That was a joke you know, although it might not have come across that way...
I still have the 2nd white label I purchased earlier this week. However, it it too fails to plot, I will be returning that one as well.
Not sure what plotting is, but all three of my white label drives passed bad blocks without incident.
Just checked, they only have around 1100 hours, but so far 0 smart errors. I guess what I am getting at is, it sounds like you got a dud.
No the new white labels have the new 3.3v reset 'feature' and you must be using an old power supply or power splitter which does not conform. You can easily fix this with tape or a molex to sata power adapter, search for easystore 3.3vSo I have been through 3 white label WD80EMAZ drives now and none of them work when connected directly via SATA. They won't spin up at all. If I use the Easystore controller and connecting via USB, they spin up just fine.
Guess WD finally caught on to people using them as NAS drives and crippled them with updated firmware to where they will only spin up when given a signal from the Easystore controller...