Back in the days I did that, I had some issues with it being unreadable with my 3 end 4TB ones.
Something to do with it internally converting MBR in the USB to SATA controller or something like that to allow larger disks on older systems. I don’t remember the specifics.
Anyway, it can be that your data becomes unreadable, and you’ll have to convert it with TestDisk or so. Or make sure you’ll initialize it as GPT from the first time. Not sure if that will help.
My 1GB (=Pentium 100 era), 20GB, 200GB IDE disks still worked when I connected them. Some have been unpowered for decades and saved in my shed. (-5 to 35°C and 60-85% humidity) I could open every single file on them that I tested.
few years ago that 199 was worth 20% more too 🤣
Ebay? I hope you have paid PayPal. With those screenshots you should be able to receive a refund.
Holy shit. These indeed have the same casing as my 12 and 14TB ones. And I have the old 8TB upon inspecting.
Fuck WD for their inconsistent Partnumbers. They are lucky their good drives are actually very good. Otherwise, I went straight to another brand.
Do a full writing check from beginning to end beforehand.
But I don’t like my 8TB WD80EFAX ones. They run quite hot @8.8W. and IMO way more noisy than the other models I have of WD Red plus drives.
If the full check comes back clean, I would only use them for offline and external copies of data as they probably have a lot of running hours in real life. I hope you didn’t pay too much.
md5checker 3.3
Easy, transparante, does what you expect.
Windows user here. I purposely map OneDrive as a network drive on my PCs to break any connection MS apps have with OneDrive.
Everytime i don’t do this, I’ll end up with previous versions when opening it and non-existenting versions of what I was actually doing in OneDrive dedespite having the full paid plan.