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
There’s some that need a SATA pin bypassed to be used internally. It’s not too much of a pain but it is something.
No, it is less than nothing, it is a FEATURE of internal drives, that can be used ONLY internally, if the drive has the feature it can do MORE internally. Now of course if one has a power supply that isn’t wired accordingly to SAT3.3 (2016) standard this “more” thing is telling the drive (again, in a standard way, it’ll happen the same if one buys just any internal with this feature) to turn off.