this exact 6TB WD elements is the best deal i can get at $30/TB vs $39/TB for 4TB or worse for smaller onesCan i just crack this open and take out the bare HDD or will it not work because of different pinout of power connector?
Some of the thin drives have soldered USB interfaces instead of a SATA port, not sure about the fat ones. Do your research on this model to confirm what you may get.
>>1078750162.5" ones are a bit cheaper but i dont really want one this one is 3.5" and should not be soldered but the connector is different i'm just curious if anyone's done it on this specific one
>>107874982>$30/TB
>>107874982>moving partspass
>>107875056i'm not in the US but even in the US WD drives start at like $25 which is close enoughi could buy 2 refurbished 4TB ones for the price of one 6TB i guess they're more expensive since flash is expensive now
>>107874982Enjoy your catastrophic disk failure and losing everything
>>107875016>>107875036>should not be solderedIt's not "soldered" as in USB to SATA, it doesn't have a SATA connector to begin with; the controller board is natively USB
>>107875148wdym>>107875150yeah no shit thank you for being hypercorrect
>>107875156Spinning platters and moving parts. You'll be lucky to get 3 to 5 years out of it, less if you run it 24/7. >3-5 years is a long timeNaw, it's really not.
>>107875181thank you for clarifying i almost thought i was missing something but youre just that retarded
>>107875197Not him. But he is right. You are the retard if you think you're going to get long term use out of an HHD. You're probably poor and looking for validation on buying shit (because that's all you can afford).
It should work. There might be an issue where you might have to use tape to cover some pin but that's rare, or only for super old motherboards.
>>107875287or i'm gonna plug it in every 3 months and do a backupget the fuck out of my thread you immaculate retard
>>107875352>Poor screeched out in pain as he's called outSure you are dumbass, sure you are
>>107875392you want a cookie or something?
>>107875394You're welcome. It's why I always avoid OPs that say "don't buy this", it usually means they have a product to shill.Also, you don't need a USB cable on the controller board; all HDDs use SATA internally (unless they're very old) and the only thing the USB connector does is let you plug in externally. The same cannot be said for a USB/HDD which actually uses it as storage.>no one has ever done this before!It's not rocket science, anon.
>>107874982I can tell you with absolute certainty that it works with the 1TB WD My Book I bought in 2010. It's currently in my fat PS2 filled up with games.
>>107875413He's just poor as shit. What he's really looking for is >Excellent buy anon! >Good choice!>You're killing it with that one, good deal!That what he wants to hear, because he's poor as shit and that's all he can afford.He's like those retards in cell phone general who shill their $20 chink phones because that's all they can afford and they validated for owning shit phones no one in their right mind would buy on purpose
Why not just buy larger drives?16-24TB are ~$19-25/TB
>>107875413>all HDDs use SATA internallythis isn't even true lmao you have 0 clue what youre talking aboutare you really that starved for attention >>107875446i have $500 worth of ssds in my PC >>107875463and do what with them?
>>107875446Based. You know it's true by how he reacted when that anon pointed out HDD drives don't last long with heavy use. He didn't want to hear that, he wanted positive reinforcement.
>>107875483>and do what with them?Presumably store data.I don't understand why you'd need 4-6TB, but can't fathom a need for 16-24TB.
thanks for the heads up OP, just bought a 22TB drive. I will amass as much entertainment as possible before everything becomes cloud-only
>>107874982shucking does work but you need to make sure you get the correct modelsi wouldn't do it unless there are post online about dudes shucking your exact modelfor example i shucked a couple 14 tb easystores for my server and there were a bunch of videos of guys shucking those exact drives on youtube, so it was really easy
>>107875181I have a 2.5 inch WD Blue HDD in my laptop that's been running pretty much nonstop since 2017. It just depends what happens. The thing about HDDs is that they don't have a specific lifespan like SSDs do so they can potentially just go forever if you're lucky.
>>107875497i'd need a nas for that since i can't handle noise
>>107875287>Not him. But he is right. You are the retard if you think you're going to get long term use out of an HHD.>>107875181>Spinning platters and moving parts. You'll be lucky to get 3 to 5 years out of it, less if you run it 24/7.I've seen ide drives last 20 uears on continual in access conrol boxes running win 95 I don;t thinl I'v e eveer had a desktop frive fail, I've seen loads of bought used enterprise 10K san drives fail after years but 10K drives tebded to do that ayway. Really rare for a 72000 sata hdd to fail, never seen it. I think your bullshitting zoomer retards or giving you the benifit of the doubt trying to compare 10K fibre san drives in raid arrays for years continuously writing.Unles syou cook it in some stupid box of fans egg cooker desktop HDDs last gen SATA hdds will last decades. I'd avoid used 10Ks though just based on my experience with them sitting on a raid fibre san under a very busy 24/7 database. Even then they lasted years and years and years
