@jgreco very nice writeup... Congrats.
Based on your write up, IIUC the same model of external hard drive might contain different models internally - did I get that correctly?
So if I was to buy 3 (as an example) WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN which is an 8TB drive, they could contain 3 different drives???
I'm likely going to have to get mine from CostCo. Good news is if I can interrogate the drive model over the USB3, and I don't like it, I can just take it back.
Also can I plug these into TrueNAS and run badblocks?
I think the WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN is what CostCo is currently selling, so if anyone can share any info on the model it would be much appreciated.
Based on your write up, IIUC the same model of external hard drive might contain different models internally - did I get that correctly?
So if I was to buy 3 (as an example) WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN which is an 8TB drive, they could contain 3 different drives???
I'm likely going to have to get mine from CostCo. Good news is if I can interrogate the drive model over the USB3, and I don't like it, I can just take it back.
Also can I plug these into TrueNAS and run badblocks?
I think the WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN is what CostCo is currently selling, so if anyone can share any info on the model it would be much appreciated.