With action shot!!
Nice! Is this like the opposite of shucking?
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The JMicron controllers in the WD drive enclosures are absolute garbage, you really don’t want to use those… here’s me copying to NAS with the bundled WD enclosure … that’s 77mb/sec
Here’s me copying to NAS with an Orico $28 enclosure (same drive, same NAS, same cable, same USB port … literally the only variable is the enclosure)… that’s 187mb/sec
Pic of the evils inside the shucked WD Elements circuit board
Closeup of the evil JMS579 from JMicron on that circuit board, in all its satanic hellfire glory
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Anker 4 lyffeeeeeee!
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The only thing I think of more evil is the Seagate 4TB drive I started using for storing completed plots… once there were a few parallel copies to it the throughput rate was measurable in bytes/sec not megabytes/sec!
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Well it ain’t pretty but it gets the job done and I can migrate the drives easily to servers later…
And check out this happy lil’ guy
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How much do those Orico enclosures run? I have a few drives lying around that I don’t have power bricks for that would do nicely to have one of those.
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$28. They are slightly fancy, aluminum shell, but I’ve found you get crap chipsets in the really cheap stuff, so I’d rather spend a tiny bit more and get something truly reliable. I like that it has a multicolor LED so it flashes red when active, on top of the blue being on. And I also like the independent power switch on the back.
(I mostly chose that brand based on the Orico NVME enclosure being of extremely high quality.)
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I’ve been eyeing rack enclosures, but I don’t have that many drives yet. Someday!