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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB
external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big Lynn |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:44:49 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote: I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big I wish I needed more drives! Less than $210 for 8TB is crazy. |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
Lynn McGuire wrote:
I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big Did you look at the model number of the white label HDD that you removed from the enclosure? One user noted in a forum that he found an 8TB Blue 5400 RPM drive inside (although WDC won't call them Blue for 8TB drives). https://www.servethehome.com/wd-book...zx-benchmarks/ Looks like WDC had some 7200 RPM drives inside the enclosure at one time but downgraded to 5400 RPM drives. https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit.../dp/B01LQVFIL2 So you can get the HDD separately for the same cost of the HDD inside the USB enclosure. Well, if you're tossing the enclosure then you didn't save any money but you did spend more of your time to extract the drive from the enclosure that you discard. However, since the base drive is not sold retail then it doesn't have a warranty, and removing it from the USB enclosure voids that warranty. |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 22:07:06 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big Did you look at the model number of the white label HDD that you removed from the enclosure? One user noted in a forum that he found an 8TB Blue 5400 RPM drive inside (although WDC won't call them Blue for 8TB drives). https://www.servethehome.com/wd-book...zx-benchmarks/ Looks like WDC had some 7200 RPM drives inside the enclosure at one time but downgraded to 5400 RPM drives. https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit.../dp/B01LQVFIL2 So you can get the HDD separately for the same cost of the HDD inside the USB enclosure. Well, if you're tossing the enclosure then you didn't save any money but you did spend more of your time to extract the drive from the enclosure that you discard. However, since the base drive is not sold retail then it doesn't have a warranty, and removing it from the USB enclosure voids that warranty. Just curious, but what about the fact that a drive that's been removed from an external enclosure, when checked at the WD site, says it does have a warranty? Is their tool wrong? AFAIK, no one has tried to get warranty service and reported their results, so I don't know. Also, from what I've seen, most/many folks are reporting that the drive they pull out doesn't have a white label. It's a standard Red or sometimes Blue drive, from what I've read. |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB externaldrive
On 08/23/2017 06:55 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big Did you look at the model number of the white label HDD that you removed from the enclosure? One user noted in a forum that he found an 8TB Blue 5400 RPM drive inside (although WDC won't call them Blue for 8TB drives). https://www.servethehome.com/wd-book...zx-benchmarks/ Looks like WDC had some 7200 RPM drives inside the enclosure at one time but downgraded to 5400 RPM drives. https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit.../dp/B01LQVFIL2 So you can get the HDD separately for the same cost of the HDD inside the USB enclosure. Well, if you're tossing the enclosure then you didn't save any money but you did spend more of your time to extract the drive from the enclosure that you discard. However, since the base drive is not sold retail then it doesn't have a warranty, and removing it from the USB enclosure voids that warranty. Just curious, but what about the fact that a drive that's been removed from an external enclosure, when checked at the WD site, says it does have a warranty? Is their tool wrong? AFAIK, no one has tried to get warranty service and reported their results, so I don't know. Also, from what I've seen, most/many folks are reporting that the drive they pull out doesn't have a white label. It's a standard Red or sometimes Blue drive, from what I've read. I don't know about Red or Blue, but AFAICS they are Helium-filled drives, rather than SMR drives, which is what are in many of the Seagate externals of that capacity. Perce |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB externaldrive
On 8/22/2017 10:07 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote: I just figured out how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive to work in a pc as a backup drive. The drive was formatted exFAT which hung the file server pc boot for some reason. I put the USB daughter board back on the bare drive and hooked it up to my office pc. It came right up. I reformatted it NTFS with 4 KB sectors. I removed the USB daughter board and put the bare drive back into the file server pc. The file server pc came right up and the drive was D:. Life is good and I saved $80 by buying the WD USB external 8 TB drive instead of the bare drive. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ and https://tinkertry.com/liberate-weste...re-to-save-big Did you look at the model number of the white label HDD that you removed from the enclosure? One user noted in a forum that he found an 8TB Blue 5400 RPM drive inside (although WDC won't call them Blue for 8TB drives). https://www.servethehome.com/wd-book...zx-benchmarks/ Looks like WDC had some 7200 RPM drives inside the enclosure at one time but downgraded to 5400 RPM drives. https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit.../dp/B01LQVFIL2 So you can get the HDD separately for the same cost of the HDD inside the USB enclosure. Well, if you're tossing the enclosure then you didn't save any money but you did spend more of your time to extract the drive from the enclosure that you discard. However, since the base drive is not sold retail then it doesn't have a warranty, and removing it from the USB enclosure voids that warranty. Yes, it is the WD80EZZX drive. Note that those bare drives on Big River are extracted from USB enclosures also. Lynn |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:55:09 -0500, Mark Perkins
wrote: Just curious, but what about the fact that a drive that's been removed from an external enclosure, when checked at the WD site, says it does have a warranty? Is their tool wrong? No, the tool is not wrong. What you forgot is how the warranty is to be handled. It goes from the end-user to the reseller. Which is where the end-user has a problem if the drive was removed from an external box. |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
jerryab wrote:
Mark Perkins wrote: Just curious, but what about the fact that a drive that's been removed from an external enclosure, when checked at the WD site, says it does have a warranty? Is their tool wrong? No, the tool is not wrong. What you forgot is how the warranty is to be handled. It goes from the end-user to the reseller. Which is where the end-user has a problem if the drive was removed from an external box. The user will have to store the enclosure during the life of the warranty. If there is a problem with the drive, the user will have to put the drive back into the enclosure (if possible and without visible damage showing the enclosure was opened) when sending back the "unit" that was purchased and warranteed. One of the referenced articles mentioned doing a burn-in of the USB unit before dismantling it to extract the drive. If there is a problem with the drive, the user hasn't spent time extracting the drive to only put it back in the enclosure so they can warranty the unit with the seller. They don't pry apart the case. They will use a clamp to squeeze the proper half or side of the case to dislodge the tangs holding the shell halves together. They'll notice broken tangs showing the case was forcibly opened. Some manufacturers employ a "hook" that will snap together when the shell halves are pressed together and breaks when the shell is pulled apart. There may be a tamper-evident sticker that cannot be removed without damage and which gets ripped when the case is opened showing the case was opened hence voiding the warranty. The sticker doesn't have to be on the outside. Engage tangs on one side of the case, apply a sticker to the inside across a seam, and then snap together the tangs on the other side of the case. The case can be ultrasonically welded together and you won't have the gear to reweld the plastic together. You cannot reseal the product before sending it in for warranty coverage. Safety media tamper dye can be applied inside the case which stains you but also the case. There are other tamper evident techniques. I'm waiting for someone to use a dye pack inside an external drive case. They'll know if you tampered with the case to open it but so will all your family and coworkers when they notice your stained hands. Okay, you're probably pranked if this ever happens. |
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how to get my 8 TB bare drive out of the WD 8 TB USB external drive
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:21:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
jerryab wrote: Mark Perkins wrote: Just curious, but what about the fact that a drive that's been removed from an external enclosure, when checked at the WD site, says it does have a warranty? Is their tool wrong? No, the tool is not wrong. What you forgot is how the warranty is to be handled. It goes from the end-user to the reseller. Which is where the end-user has a problem if the drive was removed from an external box. The user will have to store the enclosure during the life of the warranty. If there is a problem with the drive, the user will have to put the drive back into the enclosure (if possible and without visible damage showing the enclosure was opened) when sending back the "unit" that was purchased and warranteed. I think it would be a lot easier to trash the enclosure and treat the drive itself as the warranteed item. So far, I haven't seen anything that prevents that. |
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