The answer is yes, the obscenely cheap, giant drives marketed only for backup use can still be used as ordinary USB drives. Once you don't mind losing the warranty, they can be torn down & an ordinary SATA drive extracted. The lion kingdom risked $170 + $17 tax in an act of desperation because for the 1st time in 30 years of owning desktop hard drives, the hot weather seems to have damaged one. It was a good time to start moving the entire optical storage collection of 20 years to a hard drive. The lion kingdom had 2 other hard drive failures in Toshiba micro drives, but not root filesystems.








After 2 trips to the grocery store without a resolution, sometimes it's easier just to let the mane win.














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