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You can see it visually too if you have a 2.5-inch drive to compare it to (or know the size of a 2.5-inch drive): drives with separate USB to SATA boards are lo
by abrowne 7y ago
You can see it visually too if you have a 2.5-inch drive to compare it to (or know the size of a 2.5-inch drive): drives with separate USB to SATA boards are longer to fit that board, while these are only about the same length as the bare drive plus the plastic shell.
- tenebrisalietum 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGTQF6oE3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGTQF6oE3E Weird. That's interesting. Why did I think WD and other companies would just keep churning SATA interface drives forever and ever.
- justinclift 7y agoWonder if the physical hdd part itself is identical to the SATA models, and swapping over the control board from a (eg dead) SATA one of same capacity (& platters) would work?
- zaarn 7y agoUnlikely, in a modern (high capacity) drive, the firmware contains quite a bit of calibration data for all the components. You'd probably have to perform a factory reset and reformat of the physical disk blocks.
- justinclift 7y agoGood point. Probably not useful for extracting existing data from a (eg dead) drive. :)