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Shucking isn't necessarily possible anymore. Some WD external drives will hang the boot process if the host computer probes the drive for bootability. These dr
by bleepblorp 6y ago
Shucking isn't necessarily possible anymore.
Some WD external drives will hang the boot process if the host computer probes the drive for bootability. These drives will even stop the host computer from booting if they're connected via USB, much less if they're directly connected.
Some USB external drives have the USB controller embedded on the drive PCB and don't provide an accessible SATA interface.
- throwme45353464 6y agoEmphasis on _some_. This type of behaviour is more common on the compact 2.5" type external drives. As of writing this comment, big external drives still come with 3.5" hard drives, with the only caveat being that some require you to disable the 3.3V rail on your SATA connector, either by cutting the wire or taping some pins on your HDD with kapton tape. Without the workaround some of these shucked drives will not power up properly when connected to a SATA power plug that also provides 3.3V.