Western Digital to separate into two distinct publicly traded entities
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GlassGR
when wd started this (see the picture) to its usb 2,5 external drives,it stopped existing for me.
wd can split into 10 companies for all i care.
Not respecting your customers and tech community pays back !
wavetrex
What exactly are you pointing out with that picture ?
GlassGR
wd from a certain point started releasing external usb 2,5 " drives with the usb connector embeded in one pcb.
if the usb is damaged you cannot just replace the case and still use the drive.
wavetrex
Ooooooh, I see, was wondering what the heck is that on the edge, and where's the SATA port.
Yeah, well, definitely not a drive to buy for sure.
Actually, 2.5" HDD is dead to me overall, it makes no sense, too expensive for too little capacity. If I want a laptop drive, 2TB SATA SSDs are dirt cheap these days...
3.5" HDD... well, that's a different story, I could build a dog house using them as bricks, that's how many I have ;-)
anticupidon
The SATA connection points are still there, but the task to solder wires to the board is not what average Joe would do or even consider.
Venix
Oh wow I was not even aware they did that ....I thought their externals where the standard SATA drives in a tigh outer box and a USB controller like the majority of drives out there!
