MyBook 1.5TB
Model: WDBACW0015HBK-NESN
Serial #: [[REMOVED]]
After a few weeks of erratic spin-up behavior, my WDBACW0015HBK-NESN now refuses to power up: and I am frightened.
I have long harbored _ deep suspicions _ about the WD architecture of MyBooks. It has always seemed to me that WD has installed an interlocutory BIOS of some kind on the combined power and usb3 controller.
So I decided to remove the drive from the WD MyBook usb3 enclosure: https://youtu.be/T2kP5ZtkRVs
And to operate it externally: by mounting it in a usb3 dock.
This is the contained 1.5TB SATA/64MB Cache WD15EARS (S/N: [[REMOVED]]):
which apparently can not be reliably operated without this proprietary WD usb3 controller:
The 1.5TB SATA/64MB Cache WD15EARS (S/N: [[REMOVED]]) will not run in a USB3 dock.
But when I reassemble the unit on my desk, like this:
it works just fine.
Here’s the question: what kind of hidden partitions and hidden BIOS instructions is WD putting on these units which makes it impossible to run them as Plain Old Hard Drives?
