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Can you shuck a drive BOTH before & after it has been written to? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Specifically a WD Elements (22gb).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There was the pin 3 issue.

I shucked an 8TB WD, and it didn't work in my computer. I put it in a WD My Cloud (Wish I had gone Synology then, and not his along the way) and it's working fine.

Maybe that issue made people hesitant?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's somehow fine, as there is a small seed of a real issue (although it's on the power supply side not on the drive side, and it's easy to understand and to contain) but to have people scaring themselves on Internet about 3.5" drives with USB directly on the PCB, even if nobody ever has seen one in the whole history of the universe, but you know just in case, like they would be appearing like some mutating viruses, and even more PEOPLE TRICKING THEMSELVES after reading all this fear mongering that "I really really feel like I've gotten one before" it's absolutely next level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There was the pin 3 issue.

If you mean the 3.3v pin, I wouldn't classify that issue as a "was" quite yet.

My most modern PSU is a Corsair RM850x, released June 2022 according to the shop page. Now maybe Corsair actually makes shit hardware; I'm no expert. But in any case, I have a pretty freakin new power supply that needs tape.

So honestly, I'd say the misinformation is that the pin issue ever went away.

I shucked an 8TB WD, and it didn't work in my computer. I put it in a WD My Cloud

Yeah, funny enough, the DAS boxes I've used always bypass the pin issue. Or I guess I should say that they function properly.