Seems the best price, from Amazon, for this drive, it was £190 earlier in the week. You can buy from an individual via Amazon (£153.80 + £0.59), but this price is now close enough not to take the risk of warranty issues down the line.
I tried Flubit, but they only offered £2.60 off the price, I had a lot of vouchers to use so stuck with the reliable returns of Amazon.
I've bought mine to put all my important data, especially my irreplaceable photos, 8TB isn't much to lose, so I won't bother keeping a backup ;-)
mike
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wakkaday
7 Jul 16#1
Is this to 4tb red
quidstretchy to wakkaday
7 Jul 16#7
sigh
New2Deals
7 Jul 161#2
Hardware encryption meaning your data is lost if that breaks
The drives are hardware encrypted. You cannot turn this encryption off. There is a password option, but even if you do not use this, the drives are still always encrypted. The electronics that do the encryption are built into the enclosure. The encryption/decryption key is built into a chip in the enclosure. The user has no access to this key.
isn't that only the 2-bay enclosure rather than the single bay HDD in this deal?
ando
7 Jul 16#4
A different drive than listed here This review is from: WD 4TB My Book Duo Desktop RAID External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBLWE0040JCH-EESN (Accessory)
mbuckhurst
7 Jul 16#5
I thought that was true, but regardless, I'm willing to take a risk, I've never had an enclosure fail, but I've had dozens of disks fail either at home or work, so if anything I'm more worried about a disk failure. But regardless, failure of the enclosure or disk, I'll go back to my backup for recovery.
If anything I'd be happy if my data was encrypted (assuming it can't be broken), at least if it was stolen I wouldn't have to worry about my personal documents being read by someone else.
mike
bargain1979
7 Jul 161#6
however, maplin description of this product states it is encrypted, so maybe that problem is on this one too: Your text here
dmn001
7 Jul 16#8
from reading the reviews it looks like the 2-bay RAID drives are encrypted, but there is no mention of encryption on the single drives. this user review quoted below took one apart and put it in his machine as a standard drive so the drives themselves are not encrypted, there may be an encryption layer in the enclosure itself that cannot be turned off. still not sure if it applies to the 1-bay model or not.
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Opening post
I tried Flubit, but they only offered £2.60 off the price, I had a lot of vouchers to use so stuck with the reliable returns of Amazon.
I've bought mine to put all my important data, especially my irreplaceable photos, 8TB isn't much to lose, so I won't bother keeping a backup ;-)
mike
All comments (75)
The drives are hardware encrypted. You cannot turn this encryption off. There is a password option, but even if you do not use this, the drives are still always encrypted. The electronics that do the encryption are built into the enclosure. The encryption/decryption key is built into a chip in the enclosure. The user has no access to this key.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/customer-reviews/R81U5ZHFJTYJK/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B01BBZ4Q0C
If anything I'd be happy if my data was encrypted (assuming it can't be broken), at least if it was stolen I wouldn't have to worry about my personal documents being read by someone else.
mike
edit: All WD drives with "Smartware" are encrypted. If it doesn't have Smartware, it's not encrypted.
instructions to remove smartware in linux