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  • What's inside a WD Essentials external drive?

    From Percival P. Cassidy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 15:08:40 2019
    You won't know until you shuck it: Amazon reviews and answers to
    questions concerning WD Essentials USB3 external drives show that what's
    inside may vary -- some "white label," some HGST datacenter drives --
    perhaps depending on what they had a surplus of at any particular time
    (and are some of them possibly returned/refurbished drives?).


    https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD

    (drives of various capacities are referred to in the reviews and answers)

    Perce

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  • From Percival P. Cassidy@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 18 15:15:38 2019
    On 6/18/19 3:08 PM, I wrote:

    You won't know until you shuck it: Amazon reviews and answers to
    questions concerning WD Essentials USB3 external drives show that what's inside may vary -- some "white label," some HGST datacenter drives --
    perhaps depending on what they had a surplus of at any particular time
    (and are some of them possibly returned/refurbished drives?).


    https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD


    (drives of various capacities are referred to in the reviews and answers)

    Oops! It's "Elements" not "Essentials"

    Perce

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  • From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to Percival P. Cassidy on Tue Jun 18 14:18:51 2019
    On 6/18/2019 2:08 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
    You won't know until you shuck it: Amazon reviews and answers to
    questions concerning WD Essentials USB3 external drives show that what's inside may vary -- some "white label," some HGST datacenter drives --
    perhaps depending on what they had a surplus of at any particular time
    (and are some of them possibly returned/refurbished drives?).


    https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD


    (drives of various capacities are referred to in the reviews and answers)

    Perce

    I have shucked three of the WD bare essentials 8 TB . All WD HGST SATA WD80EZAZ bare drives with a special USB3 board plugged into their board.

    Lynn

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