Specifically a WD Elements (22gb).

Thanks!

  • EtherMan@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Generally the enclosures are just that, enclosures that offer the connection. There are exceptions though where enclosure does something more. Some enclosures do encryption and some just use the same controller for single drive and multidrive and your one drive is actually set up as a 1 drive raid array in which case you may have data slightly shifted to accomodate the headers for that. You can then still recreate everything, but it’s a pain.

    But as I said, generally they’re just providing the drive as is in which case there won’t be any issue.

  • b4st1an@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I did it and was surprised it worked because people told me it wouldn’t. If I’d known that, it would’ve saved me a lot of copying and backupping.

    • dr100@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      people told me it wouldn’t

      It is beyond belief how misinformation gets propagated over Internet, at least here it’s something more subtle, but it’s really weird how people constantly come asking about 3.5" if they are shuckable at all (as in if the internal drive is “normal”, not that they would want the data, they’d like to just shuck the drive from the start). What’s more people even manage to gaslit themselves that somehow in the past they’ve had personally some 3.5" external with the USB directly on the PCB!

      • joetaxpayer@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        There was the pin 3 issue.

        I shucked an 8TB WD, and it didn’t work in my computer. I put it in a WD My Cloud (Wish I had gone Synology then, and not his along the way) and it’s working fine.

        Maybe that issue made people hesitant?

        • Mo_Dice@alien.topBEnglish
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          11 months ago

          There was the pin 3 issue.

          If you mean the 3.3v pin, I wouldn’t classify that issue as a “was” quite yet.

          My most modern PSU is a Corsair RM850x, released June 2022 according to the shop page. Now maybe Corsair actually makes shit hardware; I’m no expert. But in any case, I have a pretty freakin new power supply that needs tape.

          So honestly, I’d say the misinformation is that the pin issue ever went away.

          I shucked an 8TB WD, and it didn’t work in my computer. I put it in a WD My Cloud

          Yeah, funny enough, the DAS boxes I’ve used always bypass the pin issue. Or I guess I should say that they function properly.