Re: To shuck or not to shuck...
By: Digital Man to All on Sun Dec 03 2023 03:14 pm
> During Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, I found a good deal on an external
> Seagate 14TB USB drive at Costco: $149. Dollars per terabyte, hard to beat
> that price.
> The disk inside this external drive enclosure is just a standard Seagate Exos
> or IronWolf Pro NAS class-drive CMR hard drive (which separately, sell for
> more than, sometimes double, the external drive). Reportedly, this price
> difference is because the warranty on the bare drive is longer than when sold
> as part of the external drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41JwxULVdAs
> My first instinct/plan was to "shuck" the drive and install it inside my
> workstation (there's room and cabling and power to support it), but now I'm
> having second thoughts: USB 3.0 is 5Gbps while SATA 3 is 6Gbps. Is that
> potential 20% gain in performance something I need for this drive? Not
> especially. Some say that removing the drive, which usually damages the USB
> enclosure, may void its warranty. Others say it does not. Shucking cheaper
> external drives as replacement drives in a NAS (where USB isn't an option) is
> a fairly popular thing to do, but I'm not really sure about the advantage for
> workstation use. It is another box on the flower, another USB cable and port
> used, and its own power adapter. But what is one more in mess under and
> beside my desk?
you should get a drobo clone like i have. i don't have to crack my computer open
anymore to add drives. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mediasonic+probox&crid=H46NK3B
F99JS&sprefix=mediasonic+probo%2Caps%2C101&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
look up mediasonic probox or look at their other products.
> What are you experiences with external USB drives? Have you shucked them and
> used the bare drive in SATA NAS or workstations?
yeah i've done that. i've actually done that years back when an external
seagate was cheaper than an internal drive.
But look up the failure rates for current drives. get the most reliable one. ---
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