what do you do with the case from a shucked WD 3.5" drive

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philb2

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As the title says. I love that I can shuck these drives. I just feel bad about getting rid of the cases.
 
If you find something useful, let me know. Otherwise, I just keep them in the box in case I need them for warranty claims (knock on wood)
 
I also keep mine in the box for warranty purposes or re selling them.
 
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I read somewhere that these WD cases have a chip that does NOT allow the case to be used with any other drive. Bummer. I've got some bare 3.5" drives that I use with a docking station. Would have been nice to keep them in these WD cases.
 
I put old drives in them. The WD firmware works with any WD or HGST drive.
 
philb2 said:
I read somewhere that these WD cases have a chip that does NOT allow the case to be used with any other drive. Bummer. I've got some bare 3.5" drives that I use with a docking station. Would have been nice to keep them in these WD cases.
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I have a 2TB Toshiba SATA drive in my 14TB WD's old case. It's being used as an XBox One storage device. Works just fine. So your mileage may vary!
 
Send in a bare drive and this is what they say,
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Kiriakos-GR said:
Was it an WD Elements Desktop?
https://www.ittsb.eu/forum/index.php?topic=1647.0
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It was a 12TB Element that I shucked and put into my Mediasonic 4 bay USB case and it was working fine for 6 months.
I would power on the case every week and backup stuff to the drives, and then one day I was backing up a couple hundred gigs and the copy just stalled.
power cycled the case and the drive came up as not initialized and couldn't be initialized. tried the drive in a usb dock as well as installed in a PC and no go.
 
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