Whatever whatever whatever

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Hello,

I believe this drive has hardware encryption. This means that if you take the drive out of the enclosure the data will be unreadable

For more detailed information I recommend you contact WD support directly…

https://support.wdc.com/support/case.aspx?lang=en

MERCY. Just buy a drive that doesn’t do hardware encryption.

my posts were deleted and censored take them all or take nothing at all
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censorship

It’s encrypted in case someone steals your hard drive. [quote=“nerdpolar, post:8, topic:188790”]
Hardware Encryption against who? The operator of the computer is the only one using it.
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Hello,

I removed some posts because they were not helpful to the thread.

Please remember we are all here to try to help one another.

Please keep it friendly.

@nerdpolar

Let me see if I can help you with some of this.

Yes, it is safe. Well, about as safe as any spinning drive is safe. I’ve had a Passport Ultra for years since they first came out. It is an encrypted drive, but I’ve never used the password protect feature. I copy and delete data to and from it almost daily. It works perfectly fine.

However, there are some things that you must always keep in mind in dealing with any external hard drive.

  1. All spinning drives damage easily, so you need to handle them with care. I never move my drive while it is connected to the pc and powered up.
  2. Never just jerk the USB cable from the computer when removing a drive. It’s the surest way to corrupt your data and lose your partition. And, any corrupted data won’t be recoverable. Not unless you can afford NSA quality recovery software.
  3. Hardware encryption is necessary for those users that travel and are carrying sensitive data. It guarantees that if the drive is lost or stolen, other people won’t be able to access the data on the drive regardless of whether it’s in the case or not.
  4. There is truly no such thing as a “safe” drive. It’s safe data that you’re after. The only way to truly keep your data safe is to have it stored on multiple drives. I keep a minimum of 3 copies, on 3 different drives, of my most important data. I’ve lost critical data by not having backups. I won’t let that happen again. And, yes, it’s a pain in the rear that costs money. But you have to decide how important your data, whether it’s your financials or your movie collection, is to you.
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You haven’t got the faintest clue as to what was even being discussed.
And that is NOT the use of this hardware encryption,in fact it has NO use at all except to keep people from removing the drive from the case.
Encryption is NOT password protection.
I can’t imagine why you are even bothering to post you are so out of touch.

I edited out all my posts because of the censorship here.
Some of my pots were removed so no one can possible understand what information I offered or asked.
Thy were removed to hide the truth about WD products.
This proves to me this company is deliberately lying and their products are worthless.
I am sick to death of the censorship and fascism on the internet and corporate lying and cheating…
I wouldn’t take any WD products if they were free,

Your posts were removed because you were in violation of the community guidelines. We don’t allow users to “get into it” with other users, especially when they start calling them names.

And, actually, I’m quite in touch. The password protection is what activates the encryption. The fact is, the encryption is always there. You just don’t know it until you either try to remove the drive from the enclosure or you password protect the drive. All the other things I said were for making sure that you focused on data preservation rather than just data protection.

Ultimately, if drive encryption is not your cup of tea then you should purchase an encryption-less drive.

By the way, we do have unencrypted drives if that helps.