[Gllug] OT: Warning - new WD portable drives!

[Tethys]

"general_email at technicalbloke.com" writes:

>It turns out the drive inside does not have SATA connectors at all, instead
>(and worryingly) it has USB3 incorporated directly into the controller
>board! This prevents the drives SMART data being read (which might have
>been very helpful to my client a few weeks back!) and means that if you
>do have trouble with the drive you can't extract it and connect it
>directly into another PC to run diagnosis and recovery tools against.

It could be worse...

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/11/russian_duped_by_chinese_ssd_scammers/

Tet
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