I'm a noob I shucked a WD Elements 2TB external drive I bought a few years ago and found the base board has USB, not SATA. It's a WD20NMVW. I'm guessing there's no SATA beneath all of this?
I'm a noob I shucked a WD Elements 2TB external drive I bought a few years ago and found the base board has USB, not SATA. It's a WD20NMVW. I'm guessing there's no SATA beneath all of this?
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WD and Toshiba portable drives have USB soldered on. Seagate portables still have a SATA interface.
1 0 ReplyGood to know, thank you
1 0 Replysome Samsung drives also do have USB soldered on, I have one (Seagate drive, Samsung enclosure).
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