-ThatGingerKid-B to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 3 years ago

I'm a noob I shucked a WD Elements 2TB external drive I bought a few years ago and found the base board has USB, not SATA. It's a WD20NMVW. I'm guessing there's no SATA beneath all of this?

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I'm a noob I shucked a WD Elements 2TB external drive I bought a few years ago and found the base board has USB, not SATA. It's a WD20NMVW. I'm guessing there's no SATA beneath all of this?

-ThatGingerKid-B to Data Hoarder@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 3 years ago

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WD and Toshiba portable drives have USB soldered on. Seagate portables still have a SATA interface.
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  Good to know, thank you

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