No, it is less than nothing, it is a FEATURE of internal drives, that can be used ONLY internally, if the drive has the feature it can do MORE internally. Now of course if one has a power supply that isn't wired accordingly to SAT3.3 (2016) standard this "more" thing is telling the drive (again, in a standard way, it'll happen the same if one buys just any internal with this feature) to turn off.
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And what's the SPECIFIC example you want to mention, can you find even a single one or are you just trolling for clicks?
This is part of my point, there were never such 3.5" drives.
I don't know if they still do this, but MyBook* used to use encryption on their interface, preventing use of the drives outside the enclosure. Not an issue if you're planning to format the drive outside the enclosure.
That didn't prevent you from USING the disk, but it would just prevent you from using the encrypted data via the enclosure - without the enclosure. The disks themselves were perfectly normal, even regularly branded (green or even red) at the time.
I have a 200MB Seagate coming from the 90s that still works fine and it was untouched from 2001 to 2019. Yes, I had to buy MANY, MANY, MANY drives in the meantime, even if that drive didn't die.
What you know is completely false. There is no known 3.5" external that isn't a completely "normal" 3.5" internal drive inside. Yes, I'm aware of multiple times when some (usually Mac) users came with the idea that they need WD software to format their drives but that is only because they just can't find the buttons to partition/format a drive.
I don't think there is a server-side transfer with sftp, and even if there is most servers where you don't have ssh/shell access would deny it anyway. If you can login to one of the servers just log in there and sftp from there to the other server.
Will rot away on anything, use or no use, at least in this universe. It's called entropy. Have multiple copies, check them periodically and refresh as they die.
Just multiply 15x150, most OSes have a calculator, there are also some online (even google would do it if you feed it directly) ? That's the thumb rule, both in US dollars and in Euros.
Just read what it says on the adapter? Some (most nowadays) would take a large range like 100/110-240, some not.
They make good parts and even have a Formula 1 car. What's the relevance?