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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

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[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 25 points 2 months ago

Yes and i got "scammed" - western digital in order to save $3 included the USB port directly on the drive motherboard instead of the usual sata+usb like anyone else was doing

[-] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Same happened to me on a WD black

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Amazing, I didn’t know they did this

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 2 months ago

Just why don't they omit the casing inside the case too?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Which external drive did you buy? This must be a fairly recent change.

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