On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:04:53 -0700 Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2014, at 11:32 AM, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Chris> I think this is a pretty craptastic thing for a vendor to do to > > Chris> users. It doesn't matter that the overwhelming majority will buy > > Chris> the product as a unit, and never remove it. It means some users > > Chris> will need esoteric knowledge to recover their own data, a > > Chris> recovery from data loss that's induced by ill conceived product > > Chris> behavior. > > > > Removing the physical drive from the USB enclosure is getting pretty far > > away from "intended purpose". > > It's common enough that it's predictable that a significant minority users will get into trouble with a product of this type. That even Mac users are pulling drives out of enclosures, for reasons other than troubleshooting, further demonstrates that it's not at all uncommon practice. From what I remember reading about these drives, some of the newer ones are just USB-only. There is no "enclosure" to speak of, that you could remove and then simply plug the drive into SATA. It may be still possible, but certainly not easy: http://www.datarecoverytools.co.uk/2010/05/05/how-to-connect-and-recover-usb-only-western-digital-drives-with-hd-doctor-suite/ It does make sense for the manufacturers to roll-out these lesser-compatible features on such USB-only drives first. Another instance where that was the case, is the first 3 TB drives. They can manufacture and sell those with confidence, knowing that no one will try to use the drive plugged directly into their Windows XP PC with a 10-year-old BIOS. -- With respect, Roman
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