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Amazon has the WD 18TB Elements drive for $299US - Can it be shucked? (alien.top)

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

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

AFAIK, with the exception of WD and Toshiba 2.5" portables which have the USB interface integrated in the mainboard, there is no 2.5" or 3.5" drive in any external that is proprietary or locked in any way to prevent it from being used as an internal once formatted.

This is especially true for Mac users. You don't need to buy pre-formatted Mac externals. You can always format any external to whatever file system you choose.