Thanks for the video! No thanks to Seagate for making such a bad design. It's almost impossible to open the case without breaking some of those nasty locks.
rudi b this is one shot. This is my computer account. Correct the internal drives in prebuilt enclosures are not the same you can buy in store. A good way to show without buying one or opening one is look at the price of say this 4tb enclosure. Then look at the price of a 4tb hard drive. The enclosure costs less but includes the hard drive, a case, the circuits/Logicboard used to come to the hard drive to the computer, the power adaptors, and the connection cable be it USB, FireWire, aaa ect. Usually the encores cost less but include more with them. A few years ago when the tsunami hit Thailand and the hard drives became very hard to get as the factory that makes parts for almost all hard drive was destroyed. Lots of people resorted to pre built encounters and removed the hard drive for their computer. These hard drive failed fairly quickly. I’ve also gone to lectures/talks/conferences for ever am hard drive manufactures for work and asked the question are they the same and was told no they are not. I hope this helps some people out so they don’t use a sub par hard drive in their computer. In fact for a backup hard drive I recommend to my clients to buy a stand alone hard drive and put it into an enclosure. Pre built hard drives are good for downloaded music and movies. Stuff that doesn’t mater. But for most important info use a hard drive you put into an enclosure or even better in a raid enclosure with several hard drive for redundancy. 😀
If you dig into the drives Seagate uses a little deeper, you will find that most if not all Seagate "Backup" drives are SMR technology, not CMR. Do research and decide which you want spinning in your computer as the main drive. I think you will want CMR drives. Or SSD. Spend the money.
