Review on 📁 Fantom Drives 4TB WD (4.3TB) 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive Upgrade Kit, 3.5'', SATA 6.0 Gb/s, 64MB Cache with FD Cloning Utility on USB Flash Drive (HDD4000PC-KIT) by Abhinav Drury

Name: 📁 Fantom Drives 4TB WD (4.3TB) 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive Upgrade Kit, 3.5'', SATA 6.0 Gb/s, 64MB Cache with FD Cloning Utility on USB Flash Drive (HDD4000PC-KIT)
Item: 📁 Fantom Drives 4TB WD (4.3TB) 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive Upgrade Kit, 3.5'', SATA 6.0 Gb/s, 64MB Cache with FD Cloning Utility on USB Flash Drive (HDD4000PC-KIT)
Rating: 5

October 31, 2022

Avoid like the plague this is a plated drive

Nowhere in the datasheets does this confirm this but this drive is plated making it totally unsuitable for use in any type of server especially unsuitable for any type of Raid or similar usage like zfs or btrfs. Seagate is completely dishonest about these products. I expect a class action lawsuit will be filed against them soon. Of course, if you don't mind a pebble driveway then by all means give it a try, but you'll probably save money if you buy a driveway that actually recognizes that it's tiled.

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