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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? (alien.top)

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[–] HTWingNut@alien.top [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

WD and Toshiba portable drives have USB soldered on. Seagate portables still have a SATA interface.

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[–] -ThatGingerKid-@alien.top [S, B] 1 point 2 years ago

Good to know, thank you

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[–] Business-Error6835@alien.top [B] 1 point 2 years ago

some Samsung drives also do have USB soldered on, I have one (Seagate drive, Samsung enclosure).

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