hi,

I received WD element external hard drive (product of Thailand). i would like to know if it has encryption on it.

thanks & best regards,

WD elements HDD are not encrypted

+1,,,,,

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thanks for all your answers.

I beg to differ, it depends on the generation of the product. I recently bought a WD Elements 5TB and took the 5TB Green drive out of the case, when connected to SATA bus it shows RAW partition. When I connect a backup spare HDD to the Elements SATA-USB3 board it shows RAW as well. I suppose it does have encryption for the new Elements. The SATA-USB3 bridge chip is ASMedia AS1051W.

The un-encrypted seems to be the old generation horizontal enclosure without vents. Mine is a vertical enclosure with vents, looks like "MyBook" but a bit simpler.

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Was meant to add a picture but it's been put to moderation list.

What I was going to say was the new Elements with vertical enclosure and vent holes like MyBook's seems to be encrypted as well. I bought a 5TB Elements, took it apart and discovered that data on the HDD is encrypted. The bridge chip is Asmedia AS1051W