Also don’t use all 4KB of your storage in one place.
I’m really curious what’s inside the case. OP does it feel as heavy as a 16TB HDD? I’m curious if there’s just a tiny little SD card soldered inside this thing.
Why though? On the hope it’s an actual WD? But what purpose would that serve as most likely something has been messed with to make it cheaper. Or maybe from the same WD manufacturing line?
Curiosity, mostly. And yes, it could be a “factory second” labeled for local sale.
A SMART report would be interesting too. Perhaps it’s a relabeled old drive.
@[email protected] Actually, thinking about this a little more, it’s possible that you have a used data center drive which was pulled due to test failure. Data center drives get replaced all the time when they show any minor signs of failure, or sometimes just because they reach a certain number of operating hours, even if there’s no issue. If the capacity checks out, and SMART shows minor issues or just long operating hours, this might be an entirely usable drive (in an array with some redundancy).
A suggestion - plug it into a USB SATA adapter/enclosure and check it with ValiDrive: https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
(unless you’re just going to return it without opening the ESD bag)
So here is what it looks like. It’s encased but quite light. I am returning it - obviously - so I can’t open it to see what’s actually inside.
Nice. There’s probably nothing in there but an adapter board and a ROM chip running just enough of the firmware to report the drive as 16TB.
Where did you buy this at? Name & shame the seller?
So out of curiosity, I did what you suggested but I’m unclear about the outcome. Looks like the drive is shit as it already crashed on me.
Maybe you can tell me how fake it is.
FOUR KILOBYTES
holy christ the lowest i’ve ever seen was at least like 24 megs, that’s heinous
So 5 other people bought one of these before you?
Also don’t use all 4KB of your storage in one place.
I’m really curious what’s inside the case. OP does it feel as heavy as a 16TB HDD? I’m curious if there’s just a tiny little SD card soldered inside this thing.
Whoa, that looks like trash. Are you getting a refund for that?
Can you send a picture of the bottom of the drive with the control board?
Also what adapter / enclosure are you using?
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Why though? On the hope it’s an actual WD? But what purpose would that serve as most likely something has been messed with to make it cheaper. Or maybe from the same WD manufacturing line?
Curiosity, mostly. And yes, it could be a “factory second” labeled for local sale.
A SMART report would be interesting too. Perhaps it’s a relabeled old drive.
@[email protected] Actually, thinking about this a little more, it’s possible that you have a used data center drive which was pulled due to test failure. Data center drives get replaced all the time when they show any minor signs of failure, or sometimes just because they reach a certain number of operating hours, even if there’s no issue. If the capacity checks out, and SMART shows minor issues or just long operating hours, this might be an entirely usable drive (in an array with some redundancy).