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<blockquote data-quote="dtravis7" data-source="post: 1809841" data-attributes="member: 8287"><p>Charley, I think I know why. One example is a lot of the newer WD externals have Hardware Encryption in the hardware in the case before the drive. If you got an enclosure like that, you would have to format it I would think for that to take effect. That bugs me about the WD drives that do that as if the enclosure hardware fails and you get another case and put in the drive, you could not read your data as it's tied to the Encryption in the WD Enclosure! That is not good.</p><p></p><p>WD, Give me the option to encrypt or not.</p><p></p><p>That was why I bypassed WD last time I got a large External and got my Enclosure from OWC and my drive from New Egg. Bought the top of the line OWC case with a lot of ports and a 4TB HGST drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dtravis7, post: 1809841, member: 8287"] Charley, I think I know why. One example is a lot of the newer WD externals have Hardware Encryption in the hardware in the case before the drive. If you got an enclosure like that, you would have to format it I would think for that to take effect. That bugs me about the WD drives that do that as if the enclosure hardware fails and you get another case and put in the drive, you could not read your data as it's tied to the Encryption in the WD Enclosure! That is not good. WD, Give me the option to encrypt or not. That was why I bypassed WD last time I got a large External and got my Enclosure from OWC and my drive from New Egg. Bought the top of the line OWC case with a lot of ports and a 4TB HGST drive. [/QUOTE]
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