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Amazon has the WD 18TB Elements drive for $299US - Can it be shucked? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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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

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[–] [B] 2 points 2 years 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.

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