what kind of hard drive is this? I need a SATA drive, not an EIDE drive, and no manufacturer of extrenal drives will tell me what they're selling inside the box...Anyone? How can I find this out? what kind of hard drive is this? I need a SATA drive, not an EIDE drive, and no manufacturer of extrenal drives will tell me what they're selling inside the box...Anyone? How can I... » Read More what kind of hard drive is this? I need a SATA drive, not an EIDE drive, and no manufacturer of extrenal drives will tell me what they're selling inside the box...Anyone? How can I find this out? « Show Less
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SATA and EIDE is the type of CONNECTION for internal drives only, not the type of drive. External hard drives are either connected through USB or Firewire.
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It appears to connect via USB 2.0. I do not know that it is either SATA or EIDE ... probably neither from what it says.
239640
It's SATA. I know this because I had to open mine up to extract the hard drive.Sadly.
1938879
Hard Drive wqrranties start as of the data of Manufacture. I have no idea about the whether this is the actual drive or a stock photo. I could only guess it is a photo of the actual drive.
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It's not Toshiba. It's an odd ball. In Windows (all current versions) & Linux, it states in hardware properties that it's an Innostor Ext. HDD USB Device. Innostor is primarily a Taiwan chipset & thumb drive manufacturer. They are not well known or popular for hard drives. I would suspect they just made the chips & electronic circuitry inside, but the actual spinning drive is the cheapest generic Chinese drive they could find.
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I don't know the actual manufacturer and I don't know how to determine that without removing the drive from the case. I do know that there has been a change in the disc description. I have a number of older drives and they are identified as "Fantom HDD Media". However, the two newest ones I got are identified as "JMicron Generic Media". That may mean nothing, but I am concerned about who makes the drives now. I sent in a request to Fantom to find out what this change means but I never got a response. Manufacturers like OWC (MacSales) are very open about the exact drives that are installed. Just for the record, I have had three hard drives crash and are totally useless - two from OWC, one from Buffalo. So, far I have had no problems with the Fantom drives but I have owned them for much less time. Unfortunately, hard drives do not last forever. Just to be sure, you need more than one backup.
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Someone said this is a SATA backplane. It is has nothing to do with SATA, it is not a backplane an has nothing to do with drive connectors.
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I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can anyone share recent experience with CDW or Buy.com? I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can... » Read More I received this week a WD RE3 OEM drive in a small box ("ASIN marked?") secured by nothing more than thin bubble wrap and two air pillows. The drive was loose in the box. I complained to Amazon and was promised a securely packaged replacement -- and received a replacement with exactly the same packaging, except that one of the air pillows was totally deflated. Poster in this thread who describes package with cables and disks obviously received retail item. OEM drives are shipped loose in box. I will not order OEM drives from Amazon again. Newegg doesn't seem much better. Can anyone share recent experience with CDW or Buy.com? « Show Less
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OEM drives in my case, possibly European models not for sale in the US. Not covered by manufacturer's warranty - at least, not on the four drives I purchased and received today (and am sending back tomorrow). Strange that Amazon doesn't require sellers to publish warranty info. It's as if they encourage sales of gray market goods.
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Thanks - trying to find out before purchasing, but I found some posts on Newegg that indicate they are SATA (maybe they changed from IDE to SATA and this is why it isn't in the specs).
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None. They are Seagate 1 Terabyte Enterprise Drives. Enterprise drives are designed to last quite a bit longer MTF than a standard non-ES drive.
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is that the most information you can give me. do you really think i want to look up your machine. and find out what type drvie it has in it. with that said this is a 1.8 micro sata drive. not to be confused with msata. I had to buy a device to go from micro sata to 2.5 sata which is the standard.
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They put old used drives in these. So it's potluck if you get one that actually works, or will last long. When I opened mine up (I bought 2) they both had drives from 2007 in them. I bought these as new at full price. If I wanted a well used 2007 drive I could have got one for almost nothing.
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This particular one is a hard drive. There are others that offer solid state/hybrid.
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I am not that familiar of this type of components, all I know is that this is an external hard drive. Sorry, I am not of great help to you.
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this is a complete covered drive. you don't get what they show in the picture. I have no idea why they show harddrives this way..
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I bought a hard drive from Go Hard Drive and had a problem. I tried to get warranty from WD and in fact returned it to them and they told me it was not one of their drives. I returned it to Go Hard Drive and they replaced it. Please, if you want a genuine WD drive, make sure you are buying it from a genuine WD dealer. Then verify the production date when you receive it and update the warranty with WD.
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Not sure why the photos show the internal workings - the hard drive (and any I've ordered) come enclosed. You do not open it unless you are trying to physically destroy the discs... Those photos are stock photos - I did not post them.
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Wait am I confusing this product this product with something else? You can't put a hard drive in this one right? Only External?