Just wanted to note that you are essentially getting a discount WD red 8TB AND a USB 3.0 enclosure for roughly $180.00 which is pretty sweet. Note: if your careful, you can take an another drive and put inside as an external. Unluckily, WD Easystore doesn't support password protection or hardware encryption. Most importantly, the hard drive comes with 256-bit AES hardware encryption, which secures your data in a better way. Thank you r/DataHoarder for showing me this option! Passport: Security WD My Passport comes with the password protection feature which allows you to use it to set up your password. Literally 10 minutes later it’s out and inside my machine.

There are a number of fixes discussed in the Reddit link above with the worst case. Well ladies and gentlemen I took a leap of faith and trusted the video I watched showing how easy it was and went out and bought the WD EasyStore and brought it home. Wd Easystore 8tb Power SupplyThis item Western Digital 8TB EASYSTORE. I read about it but thought eh, maybe that’s too complicated and I didn’t want to break anything.

Then I stumble across this thread and find out about the EasyStore shucking method which is roughly half (give or take I guess depending on what is inside) the cost of buying the drive outright. I was going to go with something smaller because I didn’t that level of disposable income.

Hello, I am new to data hoarding and wanted to get an 8TB drive but man are the prices expensive.

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