NFM18 wrote:
I heard somewhere, that WD encrypts data so it dies and you have to pay to recover it…
Nonsense. Data are only encrypted on drives that support hardware encryption. None of the WD Green drives do that. AFAIK, it’s only done on some USB drives, and certainly not all. I know of no desktop or laptop form-factor drives from WD that are encrypted.
As long as you’re using the same product line (WD Green, basically) it should work fine. If I recall on the Elements Play, the firmware is stored in flash memory, not on the drive itself. So a new, out-of-the-box drive should be fine.
But I certainly won’t say that ANY drive would work. The firmware may prevent non-WD drives from working, for example.
