How to Shuck an External Hard Drive Enclosures for Cheap Storage
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- How to Shuck an External Hard Drive Enclosures for Cheap Storage
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Hard drives are super expensive right now and a cheap and affordable way to get good quality hard drives for a fraction of the price is to shuck them from WD 6 TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0, Black.
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If you tend to open stuff often I would recommend buying a smartphone toolkit. They are super cheap and can even help with opening other things like this enclosure without damaging the device.
external hard disk enclosures makes it quite convenient to use disks as portable drives.
Sure does
Thanks for this Brian i am new to IT and your vids really help me and i saw someone do this really easy with a laptop drive but this is cool and cheap too thanks man i try to warch your stuff everyday.
I know, its hard to keep up, I release stuff all the time, maybe I should ease off.
I opened 4TB version of that drive, I found normal WD Blue inside, no reset pins connected to 3.3V as some other drives may have. But it had head parking set to 8 seconds, I changed it to 6 minutes using wdidle3 program. It's recommended to do that as otherwise disk will park head too often when used in PC or NAS and it will die much sooner.
Now I know why my debit card never works, I've been shucking too many external hard drives with it. 😂
lol
Why Would Any Numpty Give This Video A Thumbs Down? WHAT A SPANNER!!!!
Someone who thinks it hurts me lol
Fans of certain other channels give all videos a thumbs down. They just click the video, thumbs it down and leave. It happens to almost everyone
That is a butthurt move it really is people do it alot on this channel how could you not like the content here.
Cause they are still using a Commodore 64 computer.
they have smol pp
nice quick video, gutted I couldnt get 2 of these myself, was a bargain
Yeah they was a steal at that price.
Managed to get myself 5 12TB hard drives between Amazon Prime Day and Black Friday all for £160 each. Ablosute steal these WD Elemet drives are when theey are on sale.
Damn dude that's a lot of porn. 😐
Hi Brian. That was a very very kind thing you did for (Scrap it Man) 😇 👍
He deserves it mate. Lovely family.
Great video thanks.
Glad you liked it!
Didn't know about the 10 & 12TB tier distinction. Cheers.
You're welcome.
I thought the SMR shingled drives are not good unless used for long term data storage. Not for heavy use otherwise. Is that true?
Any idea if the Driver card that you removed would conect and work with older and say non WD drives?
All of the ones I have will.
Looks like the WD Elements are basically the same as Easy Stores just different branding. Shucked 2 x WD 14TB Easy Store that I got on good deals. Found WDC WD140EDFZ-11A0VA0 5400 RPM drives inside, which are rebadged CMR HGST drives, so not a bad deal. Looks like WD switch to these 5400 RPM from the 7200 RPM drives in the previous lots of Easy Stores. Used them to replaced 10TB of 3TB and 4TB drives in my main rig with a 120GB SSD boot drive and put the 3-4TB drives in the shells for more external drives. Instant storage upgrade with a backup drive and less stress on the PSU.
These WD externals are pretty simple to shuck so shucking these make sense if you know what you are doing and with a bit of research to avoid the SMR drives. Can't beat
Yeah I agree
Easy stores are the model specifically made only for bestbuy. So they don't have to piece match any other sellers, because it's a "different model" when it really isn't.
@@thomasgenzer Thank you, that clears up a few things.
Hi is there any problems with Voltage seen a few vids where pins have to be jumped thanks for the video
That would only be a issue on really old computers, should work fine in modern day computers.
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Some external disks have 3.3V pin tied to reset pin, so if you connect SATA power connector or put drive in NAS they won't work, so modifications have to be made. WD probably did that to prevent people from buying cheaper external drives and using them in PCs and NAS devices. As far as I know these disks in video don't have that kind of mess so they will work normally without modifications. My 4TB version works without problems.
@@night6452 Thanks for your reply covers my thoughts on the NAS and internal backup.
how to move windows 10 from an x370 platform to a x570 without losing anything. Can you make a video on this.
I was able to clam my warranty outside of the case on one of these FYI.
I got my WD 2Tb it's now almost exhausted
Been doing this for years
I once bought a virgin set top box and router from a car boot sale,
I ripped out the 1tb HDD, it was the cheapest HDD I've ever purchased XD
I've also in the past salvaged a HDD from one of my old broken laptops and put it in an external drive caddy and acquired a cheap external drive XD
Yeah, standard hard drives
@@Britec09 if you have an idea of what can be found where, you can find some deals,
As for technical specs of HDDs, I don’t know them well enough, but for mass or cold storage they are normally ok from my experience
Just taken delivery of 4x 12Tb and 2x 8Tb. Am removing them as we speak. Taken out 3 year warranty via Amazon for £7 per drive and will sell them after 2 years, with a 1 year warranty remaining, so everyone wins.
Nice
Hello Brian. Does this pertain to the 2.5" drives as well?
Yes it does. Never done it myself but have seen other people do it.
should do.
@@Britec09 Ya with SSD's coming down in price it may be worth it to look into buying an external 1 for the cheap & dismantling it to use as an internal. I also wonder why external drives are generally cheaper than internal considering the external ones have a few more components ? Maybe they know more people nowadays want internal more for gaming rigs so they jack up the price ? I will never go back to HDD's. SSD's are way faster & HDD's are sometimes noisier. Also SSD's take up less room in your case & I think I remember reading they tend to not get as hot as HDD's due to no moving parts. :)
In some cases with 2.5 inch drives NO.
Some usb3 2.5 inch drive portables don't have a standard power and data SATA connector anymore.
Those are equipped with a drive logic board which has the usb3 connector soldered straight onto it.
I don't remember which brand and model I came across this disturbing surprise, but it was a major brand.
Older usb2 drive enclosures had standard SATA connectors, so casing and drive could be used separately for any purpose.
@@umbertoyltp Thank You.
Are you compresssing your sound? You still have some noise, sorry to say.
Noise? what noise
@@Britec09 Every talk you talk.. Sounds like compressed sound.. Ziit ziit... I really dont think I am the only one that can hear that...
Seagate's CMR NAS drives are a bit cheaper and I could tell zero difference
1st one
With your accent (and my Yank ears ;) it's really difficult to hear the difference between IS SMR and ISN'T SMR. Perhaps you could emphasize the IS or NOT?
SMR drives are fine for the main purpose of large hard drives - load them with archival data then read it. This usage pattern used to be called WORM (Write Once Read Mostly). The only problem Seagate had was trying to hide the difference, and not making the less responsive hard drives as much cheaper for the consumer as they are cheaper to make.
Using software such as TeraCopy (which can move data as well) which performs unattended data transfer that is restartable and verified, it's easy to safely 'load' your new SMR drive in the background so time really isn't a factor - for most uses. I'll provide no link and make no money for this suggestion - just google TeraCopy and you'll find it easily. It's free, but I paid the small fee for mine as I use it all the time and relish the safety.