Re: [Avid-L2] Confessions of holiday gifts to self...

What are you doing with the little usb3 -to-sata board and power supplies?  I've got a bunch, too.

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On Jan 2, 2020, at 21:02, wilsonchao <wilsonchao@gmail.com> wrote:



My holiday gift to myself was a pair of Western Digital 8TB drives for $130 each from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Desktop-Hard-Drive-WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN/dp/B07D5V2ZXD/ 

These are sold as consumer-grade external desktop drives with a USB-3 interface, but if you shuck them from their plastic cases, inside you'll find Western Digital "White Label" SATA drives, and on the printed label you'll find the cryptic code "MSIP-REM-HGJ-US7SAL100".  Google that code and you'll find that these are actually made by the HGST Japan Ltd. (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) arm of Western Digital:

https://fccid.io/MSIP-REM-HGJ-US7SAL100 

Oddly enough, if you Google the final code "US7SAL100" you'll find this data sheet:

 https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/collateral/cert/cert-agency-approval-ultrastar-dc-hc510.pdf

... And if you trace the "(previously known as Ultrastar He10)" claim on that page you'll come to this data sheet:

https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-hc510.pdf 

... which says these are helium-filled, 7200rpm "enterprise" hard drives for "data center" applications.  But these WD Element boxes are marketed as 5400rpm drives, so what gives?  I'm guessing that these are "derated" (i.e. intentionally crippled) drives for the consumer market because WD thinks it's more cost-efficient to run fewer assembly lines.  So yeah, HGST 8TB, helium-filled "enterprise" SATA drives for $130 each; a great deal...

After testing them overnight, I put them both in a dual-bay Akitio drive enclosure, primarily because I want a ventilation fan for any drive that I'm going to run constantly:

https://www.amazon.com/Akitio-NT2-U31C/dp/B079STYXDT/  

I'm ignoring the Akitio RAID controller, just using the box to give me two independent volumes with a single USB-3 connection.  Works fine & I'm happy!

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:28 PM Job ter Burg (L2) <Job_L2@terburg.com> wrote:

I think this is exactly what Xmas holidays are for!

Me, I finally took the time to add the RME HDSPe card to my z840 so that I can run 5.1 from Pro Tools with picture coming through the Nitris DX.
Had wanted to do this for about 5 years.

J

>  The house sound cloud has returned, in sync, and works well with the iPad, as I edit with Avid on a MBP, and write long stories like this. If anyone on the L2 found this entertaining, or is happy about now finding a way to get Airplay 2 into an old 5.1 or 7.1 receiver via an AppleTV puck, then maybe it was worth sharing.