Good price except the internal drive has a proprietary connector so you are SOL if you need to salvage drive or want to use drive in another enclosure. Why WD why?
I had a Western Digital MyBook hard drive that had the power supply go. Was a pain to get to the data. Had to dissasemble the device, which was a HUGE task, then connect it into a new bay. Drive sounded like **** too. Was happy I got everything off of it in time before it finally kicked. No confidence in their drives, and I think you're better off buying a nice external bay and some internal HD's to put into it.. maybe even set up a RAID or something.
Good price except the internal drive has a proprietary connector so you are SOL if you need to salvage drive or want to use drive in another enclosure. Why WD why?
You are wrong, it has a WD40EFRX drive inside.
Actually, you are extra wrong, because there are no WD drives with a "proprietary connector". Their 2.5" external drives have a USB connector instead of SATA, but that's still a standard.
Note that it appears the much hated hardware encryption is no longer active by default. I built a freenas volume with it in usb mode, extracted it from the enclosure, reattached via SATA and freenas still sees the device exactly the same (partition and data-wise).
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You are wrong, it has a WD40EFRX drive inside.
Actually, you are extra wrong, because there are no WD drives with a "proprietary connector". Their 2.5" external drives have a USB connector instead of SATA, but that's still a standard.
Thank you!