I know WD has been clamping down on shucking capabilities lately, by requiring the drives to use their proprietary USB interface - more so on the MyBooks, but I don’t know bout the Elements series.

Is this worth getting to shuck? And what model drive is usually inside?

Thanks!

-– DS

  • @hboyd2003BEnglish
    2•7 months ago

    Not sure what model drive is usually inside the 18tb elements but I got a WDC_WD180EDGZ-11B2DA0 with mine. It reports as 7200rpm.

    Not sure what you mean with then clamping down on shucking, I have only ever bought Elements and there has not been any changes in the last 3 years at least. With shucked hdds it will always be a sata drive inside with a sata to usb adapter. With ssds this will differ.

    Finally, the $299 price is quite poor. For that price it would be cheaper to buy new.