WD MyBook Duo usable as external FreeNAS drive?

[FJep]

Hi,

I have shucked two WD Red 12TB (WD120EFAX) from a WD My Book Duo I got for 520 EUR.

These two drive will be replacing the two old 4TB drives in my FreeNAS Server as internal backup.

Now I am wondering if I could use these old 4TB drives as external Backup in this WD My Book Duo USB case,
since I am out of SATA connectors and it also gives the possibility to detach these external backup drives?

Greetings
Frank

 

[sretalla]

Watch out for reliability (the USB to SATA chip is likely to burn out in a short amount of time), but it can be done.

You will likely also not be able to address those disks independently, so a definite no on being able to trust that storage, but if it's only a backup, there's a chance it could save you one day...

Personally I wouldn't do that as it's going to be temporary, so not too useful in the long run.