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In article , gray_wolf
wrote:


For a while Best Buy had 8TB WD Red drives inside a USB housing for that
price
or less.* Maybe last Black Friday.** Remove it from the housing and you had
a
really nice internal drive.


That's what I've done. Good price and amuch better R/W speed than USB.

usb 3 is faster than a hard drive, making the hard drive the limiting
factor, not usb.

On 2020-11-13 4:13 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , gray_wolf
wrote:


For a while Best Buy had 8TB WD Red drives inside a USB housing for that
price
or less.Â* Maybe last Black Friday.Â*Â* Remove it from the housing and you had
a
really nice internal drive.


That's what I've done. Good price and amuch better R/W speed than USB.

usb 3 is faster than a hard drive, making the hard drive the limiting
factor, not usb.


Is it faster than EVERY hard drive...

....even after you take USB's overhead into account?

In article , Alan Baker
wrote:

For a while Best Buy had 8TB WD Red drives inside a USB housing for that
price or less.* Maybe last Black Friday.** Remove it from the housing and you
had a really nice internal drive.


That's what I've done. Good price and amuch better R/W speed than USB.

usb 3 is faster than a hard drive, making the hard drive the limiting
factor, not usb.


Is it faster than EVERY hard drive...

...even after you take USB's overhead into account?

for a single spindle, yes.

In article , The Real Bev
wrote:


It's curious that when you put the drive in a USB housing it's cheaper.

generally, those have shorter warranties (1 year) than a bare drive
(2-5 years).

also, shucking a drive voids any warranty you might have had, unless
you can somehow un-shuck it back into the case without any indication
it had been removed. most of the cases use snaps and clips which break,
or there's a tamper-seal, making that an impossibility.

On 2020-11-13 5:06 p.m., nospam wrote:
In article , Alan Baker
wrote:

For a while Best Buy had 8TB WD Red drives inside a USB housing for that
price or less.Â* Maybe last Black Friday.Â*Â* Remove it from the housing and you
had a really nice internal drive.


That's what I've done. Good price and amuch better R/W speed than USB.

usb 3 is faster than a hard drive, making the hard drive the limiting
factor, not usb.


Is it faster than EVERY hard drive...

...even after you take USB's overhead into account?

for a single spindle, yes.


Is that assumption valid for the drive in question?

On Fri, 13 Nov 2020 20:06:28 -0500, nospam wrote:

also, shucking a drive voids any warranty you might have had, unless
you can somehow un-shuck it back into the case without any indication
it had been removed. most of the cases use snaps and clips which break,
or there's a tamper-seal, making that an impossibility.

For the _adults_ on this newsgroup, regarding that "tamper seal"...
(i.e., the Apple apologists will claim all facts are "lies by liars")

We covered the well publicized FTC letter to manufacturers negating the
"if you touch this the warranty is void" seals, a long time ago on the
Apple newsgroups (since the articles claimed Apple was warned by the FTC).

o FTC Warns Companies 'Warranty Void if Removed' Stickers Are Flatly Illegal
https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/IJxoXfBIqZY

Given Apple apologists always claim Usenet threads that have cites don't
have cites (it's the game they always play which allows them to negate
facts they don't like), here's the cite in the very first line of that
thread.

o FTC Warns Companies 'Warranty Void if Removed' Stickers Are Flatly Illegal
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/267288-ftc-warns-companies-warranty-void-if-removed-stickers-are-flatly-illegal
"If you've ever purchased a game console or other piece of electronics
gear, chances are you've seen a 'Warranty Void if Removed' sticker stuck
somewhere on the device. There's typically a peel-away tape used to
confirm whether a device has been opened. If it has, companies will
often attempt to deny warranty claims.
What many people don't realize is that this is illegal."

It's also illegal to specify certain parts or services:

Here's the FTC official notification of a warning to 6 manufacturers
(where the original article said Apple was almost certainly one of them)

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/04/ftc-staff-warns-companies-it-illegal-condition-warranty-coverage
"The letters warn that FTC staff has concerns about the companies'
statements that consumers must use specified parts or service
providers to keep their warranties intact. Unless warrantors provide
the parts or services for free or receive a waiver from the FTC,
such statements generally are prohibited by the Magnuson-Moss
Warranty Act, a law that governs consumer product warranties.
Similarly, such statements may be deceptive under the FTC Act."
--
The belief system of apologists is almost always completely imaginary.

In article , Alan Baker
wrote:

For a while Best Buy had 8TB WD Red drives inside a USB housing for that
price or less.* Maybe last Black Friday.** Remove it from the housing
and you
had a really nice internal drive.


That's what I've done. Good price and amuch better R/W speed than USB.

usb 3 is faster than a hard drive, making the hard drive the limiting
factor, not usb.


Is it faster than EVERY hard drive...

...even after you take USB's overhead into account?

for a single spindle, yes.


Is that assumption valid for the drive in question?

yes