WH14NS40 svc NS40, from 2024 ??
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2025 4:43 am
I just received this drive from ebay, from a US seller. (Note: If I had known it was an svc NS40 I would not have ordered it).
But an svc NS40, manufactured in 2024 -- does that make sense? I thought they changed from svc NS40 to NS50 in 2015.
Looking in more detail at photos in ebay I'm finding lots of images of WH14NS40 drive with a label that says SVC ns40 and a 2020+ date, which make me wonder even more.
Is there some china factory that kept making this design even after 2015? Or, are there people making fake NS40 labels that use modern dates? (And, if you're going to fake a label, why not fake it to say NS50?)
Also I note on the label, the two dates don't agree ("Manufactured: February 2024" but also "2024 08 18") but I don't know if that's abnormal or not.
The other pattern that starts to emerge from looking at drive photos in listings is that it seems like the "super multi" logo was used on the NS40 drives and the "M DISC" logo was used on the NS50 drives, but I don't know if that's a true correlation or not.
I'm trying to gather more info about this before I decide what to do with the drive (keep it, or try to raise an issue with the seller, etc). If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.
The drive is shrink wrapped and I haven't wanted to remove that until I decide what I'm going to do. But I'm very much assuming it'll show up as MT1939 and not MT1959.
I tried to add photo attachments, but it didn't seem to work. Trying links instead:
But an svc NS40, manufactured in 2024 -- does that make sense? I thought they changed from svc NS40 to NS50 in 2015.
Looking in more detail at photos in ebay I'm finding lots of images of WH14NS40 drive with a label that says SVC ns40 and a 2020+ date, which make me wonder even more.
Is there some china factory that kept making this design even after 2015? Or, are there people making fake NS40 labels that use modern dates? (And, if you're going to fake a label, why not fake it to say NS50?)
Also I note on the label, the two dates don't agree ("Manufactured: February 2024" but also "2024 08 18") but I don't know if that's abnormal or not.
The other pattern that starts to emerge from looking at drive photos in listings is that it seems like the "super multi" logo was used on the NS40 drives and the "M DISC" logo was used on the NS50 drives, but I don't know if that's a true correlation or not.
I'm trying to gather more info about this before I decide what to do with the drive (keep it, or try to raise an issue with the seller, etc). If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.
The drive is shrink wrapped and I haven't wanted to remove that until I decide what I'm going to do. But I'm very much assuming it'll show up as MT1939 and not MT1959.
I tried to add photo attachments, but it didn't seem to work. Trying links instead:
