I was too curious and broke the seal. Will actually try to use it, probably for the rare full /home backup every 2 or 3 years, since it needs external power and is probably not that fast. I’d date this artifact late 2000s? It might have USB 2, making it fast enough.
Weird though that I’d buy this and forget about it forever. It definitely cost enough to matter to me back then.
i found one last winter, new in box. a couple quick web searches for specs told me it was an early model 2tb cmr inside and that it could be taken out and used like a normal internal drive. cool. can always use those.
shuck it, get it hooked up, was all ready to go… fails smart diagnostics.