my 18TB drives arrived, for those interested: (cc @MechaSilvio@poa.st and anyone else who bought them from amazog) shucking is easy, one screw covered by a warranty sticker allows the whole tray to slide out of the outer casing inside the case: [WDC WUH721818ALE6L4](https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-dc-hc500-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-dc-hc550.pdf) CMR drives speed result over USB3:

@graf@poa.st damn, it's a beast. They delivered the promised speeds

[email protected]@poa.st one side of the box says "made in china" the other side says "assembled in USA" so I presume they outsourced for the casing the base is plastic but the rest is all aluminum. sounds like a full rack server firing up when it spins up, its definitely a beast (helium filled too)

@graf@poa.st can't wait for mine to arrive. 18TB of anime!