BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Shucking still happens, yeah - but you gotta remember that shucked drives exist because the USB DAS disks that people are after are disks that are discarded for QA reasons when binning enterprise drives.

You may get lucky and get ones that fail the QA binning to become enterprise drives because of a minor flaw, but you can also get ones that'll constantly fail or misbehave in unpredictable ways, making the experience of using them an absolute nightmare and the rootcausing of the issue without something like dtrace even worse.