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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I'm guessing there's no SATA beneath all of this?
Correct, these are native USB drives.
You are stuck with this so you might as well put it back in the case.I'm dumb and I broke the case 😬
Technically not native USB, they usually have a SATA to USB translator chip soldered
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