WD Elements removal

[MrG3N3S1S]

I have a similar drive but mine is black and doesn't have screws on the sides of it only the 5 on the top holding the drive in place. Is it possible to replace my PS3's HDD with the uncovered HDD.

[CruelQuertos]

thanks

[DaveGelkin]

ndt2iii there is no reason why not

[ndt2iii]

can i replace the 500G with 1T

[timmy8372]

thankz mate

[920mario]

if your computer is runnin low on memory can u use a External hard disk drive

to get more space!

[katakisLives]

I am amazed that we still have to put our trust in a magnetic disk as a primary mode of computer storage! I'd go solid state if the price wasn't so ludicrously high

[stewieleetsauce1994]

SSD is like a flash drive, it can only be read and written so many times until it begins to fail.

At least, this is what most my research is telling me.

Though I may be wrong..

[katakisLives]

That is true of flash memory, and most solid state drives are flash based! they have a limited lifespan, I have heard there are other forms of solid state storage that are far more robust but for various reasons are not a common, solid state is bound to be the future but not flash! thats only good for things like pen drives!

[lesleyhenriquez]

@stewieleetsauce1994 You are correct. But with current technology, even an MLC drive can have 1GB of data written and deleted daily, and it will still be very usable in 5 years, when you probably already replaced it with newer and faster drive. If you want a shitload of read/write cycles, get SLC, but pay 8-15 times more. As it is, there are no mechanical parts to fail, no platters to go faulty, no heat to screw up the drive, no recalibration cycles, I boot from one and will have it no other way

[lesleyhenriquez]

@katakisLives Magnetic drives have proven their worth, and have an excellent price per GB. If you want dependable, use backups and secondary offsite backups. Either that or go tape. Use a fireproof vault.

[katakisLives]

@lesleyhenriquez I still use magnetic drives! they are the best value per GB and I don't really trust solid state drives! they have far fewer read write cycles and if they fail none of the data can be recovered unlike a faulty magnetic disk drive.

[lesleyhenriquez]

@katakisLives You just proved you know shit about it all. Data can always be recovered. Even from ssd's, just using different procedures and the techniques are newer and so still quite expensive. Fare fewer read write cycles compared to what? MLC? eMLC? SLC? I'd like to see you pull your photo;s off a scratched and fucked platter at home.

[katakisLives]

@lesleyhenriquez I would have thought it was pretty obvious what kind of drive I was refering to! a conventional magnetic hard disc drive! far more read write cycles than a flash based drive even one that uses even wearing!! clearly if the platter is all scratched up its too far gone for any data recovery but a standard hard drive failure situation is no doubt far easier and cheaper to recover from than the solid state counterpart, I sure you could pay through the nose for some genius to sort it

[lesleyhenriquez]

@katakisLives It was abvious. There are different kinds of ssd moron. SLC has more write cycles than you can imagine, so much is obvious. My heavily used Corsair force only has 213 sectors in disuse due to read/write failures. That's only a very tiny fraction on such a well-used drive. How is your flashdrive coming along? I can only assume you have several of all three kinds that you can make such claims.

It is called wear leveling, and easier and cheaper to recover from?

[lesleyhenriquez]

@katakisLives cont.

I paid thousands upon thousands for a jerk to recover a platterbased sas drive. That was a very small drive. (Thank the interns for making shitty or no backups and lying about it.) Electrontunnelingmicroscopes are not something the handy genius nextdoor has lying around. I bet you can read out individual chips easier if you just desolder them and have a schematic and controller ready.

[machette507]

WWooww my light does not come on anymore, it just does not respond when being plug in !!!

hheelpp im a dj and my music is in there

[Ghlargh]

I have bought 2 of these drives, the drives themselves are fantastic, but the power supplies are crap, both mine have broken within 2 months of purchase,

[timmy8372]

my Western Digital Elements 1TB External Hard Drive has stop gettin power and doesnt work anymore wat chould be wrong with it ? is it the power cord or wat

[DaveGelkin]

@timmy8372 do a quick fault finding test.

1) Using a multimeter test the sockets of the power supply for any power output.

2) Remove Drive from Enclosure. Test Drive externally via another power source i.e. PSU from normal PC.

This should limit what your problem could be. Is it a power supply, enclosure or HDD problem.

[timmy8372]

thankz mate will do

[lesleyhenriquez]

@timmy8372 For anyone reading this: Almost always the enclosure that fails. I've had quite a few. Get a quality one, not a cheapshit one, those will crap out within two years.

[reymar022093]

Is there a sata port on the hard drive?

[gt5004life]

No Sir, there isn't a e-SATA port on this external hard-drive.

I hope this answers you question.

// 3DGAMEMAN

[pietjanhenk]

got adapter for free from wd because have warranty

[thesenamesaretaken]

As a point of interest, may I ask what brand of hard drive is inside the WD Elements? I have a 1TB version myself, but I don't fancy voiding my warranty just yet to find out.

[zomfger]

Great video for those who got a broken adapter. Happened to me yesterday :/

[sjakoscave]

thank you :-) The power adaptor on mine stopped working today.....

[FSH135]

interesting..i have same problem :-(

[BrorGertrud]

Thanks for this :) Was just going to open mine because the adapter is broken and it´s cheaper to by a new cabinet then the adapter itself ^^