How To Shuck a WD My Book EASY & FAST (without Damage)! 

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This is exactly what ive been doing with my nas for the last 8 years. i never knew it was called SHUCKING! thanks for verifying.

2:09 to start youtube's 1/3rd rule working almost perfectly

Concise and precise, thanks a lot for making the video simple and not extending it unnecessarily. Vielen Dank.

Thanks! That made it easy-peasey, and I'm glad there's no damage to the case. The screws holding the HD into the inner case were T10, and I was afraid I'd break something trying to twist it out, but the torx driver did the trick. I only had a 4TB HDD (WD40EFRX, 64MB cache) in my WD case, which I wanted to put into a Mediasonic ProBox 4-bay unit in order to have fewer cables plugged into my computer. Good job!

Excellent video and great job showing the rest of us how to so this neatly! 😁👍🏼

Just got this drive and your instructions worked like a charm. Thanks for the help!

Your video was SO much better than the other one I used first. Thank you!

Just a heads-up: those four metal fixings are actually screws- if you happen to have a precision/repair screwdriver set; they're seemingly Torx 10 heads, and you can unscrew them in-place. Benefit = less bending plastic, and the rubber pieces hold the screws in place, in the enclosure, once you've unscrewed them from the drive itself. (Thanks for the video!)

Excellent video! I had done exactly as you said and have removed the drive without any damage or hassle. Thanks

Ty for the help! It works 2 yrs later, really masterpiece.

wow this is amazing, far easier than i thought it would be! i'm so glad you made this video. thank you.

Randomly did this to an older 3TB WiFi WD drive. Great video, Phil!

this finally answers my question of whether or not WD puts the same type of drive in their MyBooks. I bought a 3TB MyBook about 5 years ago, ca. 2016-2017, not knowing there was an actual mechanical drive inside (i'd never had a portable HD before and thought they were just oversized flash drives of some sort). When i discovered this, i decided to take it apart and found out it was a Green series, which i didn't even know was a thing back then. I now have it mounted in my PC and use it for storage of media and many of my games that dont need to be on an SSD for the sake of loading times. i've seen a few other videos where some of the drives have been Purple, but i think those might have been much older videos.

Thanks for your informative video. I've purchased previously the WD My Book Duo (the 2 disk version) in 24TB capacity, that contains 2 x 12 TB drives. I needed 24 of those disks for my NAS setup. The versions of drives that I received were proper branded WD Red drives, version WD120EFAX-68UNTNO. I am now going to buy 2 of the WD My Book 6TB drives that I believe contain WD blues (I hope so anyway, otherwise I may have the power issue with the pin that needs covering).

Thanks so much! I was trying to do it from the other end and it was such a pain, so I had to Google it ASAP, and found your vid! 🥺 So much easier from the bottom 😂

Thanks for the video. The crap MyBook power interface failed after 3 weeks. The drive is intact though and your video allowed me to recover the files and information. Thanks

Perfect procedure for my needs. Thank you.

Just took mine apart thanks to your help. 2 thumbs up!

Thank you so much, I have been going over what to buy, And your video helped me..

Thank you, today I learned a new word of the English language ;)

Thanks for posting, it helped so much. I bought the WD 8TB MyBook in the orange box from Best Buy 2020.01.01 & the drive was a DAZ model. Hope that helps with your data collection!

simply amazing! thanks!

This is going to help me a lot, I am about to shuck a WD My Book Essentials 1TB bought like 7 years ago.

Thanks, that was helpful. Have a wonderful day

Very helpful video and well explained.Thank you!

This is a very helpful video, tight and neat, Thank you!

this tutorial just saved my old hard drive. TLDR of it is that I needed to replace the component that accepts the cords connecting to the outlet and computer itself. still had to buy a new drive, but this saved me from having to re-download a lot of things

Thanks! Clear and easy to follow.

Im so glad I watched this, i was about to rip into this plastic. You method is a lot easier!

Thanks for the video....wanted to disassemble my 8tb WD for a while without destroying the case👍

Amazing video!

Really good info. Thank you.

Worked for my 4TB. Thanks

Great video! HDD going inside PC, worked great!

Worked great, thank you

Awwwwwwww, man! Thanks!! I ripped the case to pieces, when i heard you saying "only two thumps..."! 8-)

This worked for me, thank you.

Very handy information!

Excellent, I am going to throw the assembly but it was easy following what you showed.

Outstanding. Well done.

Thanks to your instructions this was very easy and worker like a charm! Inside was the same white WD80EZAZ 8TB like in your video.

excellent! short and sweet.

Great video. Cheers

Thanks for the video! It was really helpfull!

Thank you for your videos phil

Awesome man!!! Thanks a lot!

Wow l never knew you could do this with my books! Thank you

🙏🏽 thx man, I used two flatheads and a lockpick and it came out instantly. Just gotta watc for the for tabs and the top will just slide out. Appreciate it the info

Thanks for tutorial

Thank you for the video. It helped me but not as I expected: I bought a WD My Book several months ago. It was sitting unopened until last week when I found it would not work on any system (tried multiple Windows and Linux systems). I could not find the receipt so I figured I was out of luck. I came across this video and thought, "Hey! At least I can try removing and using the drive." After watching this video opening the WD My Book case was easy. Upon opening it I was surprised to find a Seagate drive! I bought the My Book at Walmart. It appeared to be sealed but I suspect someone traded a Seagate 80GB drive for the WD 8TB drive, repackaged it, and returned the device to Walmart. There is data on the drive. Looks like some medical software artifacts. I will see if I can determine where it came from and follow-up with the authorities if there is any HIPAA violations.

Thanks for the tips! My case was somewhat different in that I wasn't shucking the drive to use elsewhere - I actually have one of these WD externals that I have owned for 6+ years where the internal HD had gone bad. The 4 "studs" are actually the mounting screws for the drive and can be backed-off using a Torx T-8 (if you have one), which makes drive removal somewhat easier in case the plastic frame of your unit is not as flexible as in the video (mine wasn't). Since the actual internal HD is standard SATA 6GB, my plan is to replace the failed unit with a refurbished 8TB bare drive from Amazon and reuse the USB enclosure.

You are great, man Thanks ❤❤❤

Thanks so much. Worked like a charm,.

Excellent. Thank you Sir!

Nice. Thanks.

Thanks my dude. I got it with a plastic wedger from a ifixit case. No damage!

Thanks, it works fine for the 16tb version too

Thank you very much to show how to open this.

Brilliant. thank you

Wonderful idea thank you so mach my data is lose but your ideas is most my data is ready to use👍🙏

Thanks for the video. I noticed on my WD My Book there were two additional clips at the other end of the drive in the middle. It was obvious they were binding so I just used your credit card technique and the unit came right apart. My drive was a WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0 My son tells me this is likely a CMR model (he's up to date in this stuff, I'm just an olde phart)

Brilliant! Thank you!

Good simple & clear video, but it's hard to believe that shucking will be cheaper than actually buying the internal drives.

Thanks for this! I thought my My Book had failed and I had lost all my files; thankfully after using your tutorial to get out the 4tb drive from the enclosure, it seems like it was the daughterboard that turned the drive into an external drive that had failed, as plugging the drive directly into my motherboard showed that it was still in perfect working order and all my files were still there. Thank you so much for this again!

Fabulous! Thank you so much!

You helped me, thank you very much.

THANK YOU!

You've got the right technique to open the casing. I've tried as well and I don't succeed without damaging the casing!

First time shucking, didn’t break a single tab on two MyBooks. thanks!

Very helpfull, thanks !

10x for this tutorial, very helpfull

Just bought a Western Digital easystore 8TB external drive. I always plug these in before shucking, because if it is defective I can return it. After shucking the drive I discover it is also a wd80ezaz drive. The most important thing I found out is that these drives do tend to run warm to hot. So as far as I have figured as long as it stays below 50-C. it should be okay. It does run at 7200RPMs so it is faster than I expected. Most are around 5400RPM. I bought mine from BestBuy for 169.99 US dollars. A regular NAS Red label is running 229.00 US dollars. So that's it.

Just shucked an 8GB WD My Book, id had a WD80EDBZ (ordered 04.10.2023). It runs noticably louder than the 5400rpm hdd I had before. Also, I had to use the guitar pick on the clips on the opposite side as well to get it to slide out. The rubber dampeners have little "feet", be careful when inserting a new hard drive as these feet tend to easily shear off.

thank you!

Hope this might help some people out there over time. :)

great video. I just followed this to shuck a 4TB WD blue to put in my new Unraid Server.

I got the 8 Tb bought at walmart came in green box and decided today to open up the case using your method and I got the WD80EDAZ

Thanks!

thanks for the help :) I shugged mine which came in a white-green box - a WD80EZAZ

Hey Phil...good job..thx for that... bought two green boxed in 2020 for my nas with 14tb each..both WD140EDFZ ..one orange boxed followed in 2021 with 14tb in 2021 also WD140EDFZ (all FW vers. 11A0VA0) different look..same content :)

Thanks 😊

Thx for this video. Also needed the HDD for my computer. Got a 14 TB version called "WD140EDFZ". It was interesting, abusing my guitar picks. 😉

Further to my posting yesterday, I have now received from Amazon UK 2 x WD My Book 6TB models and 1 x WD My Book Duo 24TB model. The My Book Duo contains 2 x 12TB WD120EFAX-68UNTNO drives. The 6TB My Book devices contain a WD60EDAZ white label drive. I have taken the 12TB drives out of the duo to use in a NAS and the 6TB drives will be going into the duo to make a 12TB duo device. The white label drives work fine in the duo and do not have the power pin issue that some people experience with the white label drives. I don't know if the WD60EDAZ is blue or red drive, but I would assume from it's price that it's a white label blue drive. Main thing is, it works, so I am happy as I have saved about £30 on the price of buying individually (And I will populate the 2 empty My Book cases with a couple of 2TB WD red drives.

Cool video. I did a 12tb My Book last year, it's nearly full of video already and preforms exactly the same as a red (non pro) the drive was WDC_WD120EDAZ-11F3RA0_######## (## is replacing the identity aka serial number)(this is how it displays it's model/serial in unraid) SMR is one reason I wouldn't buy an 8tb anymore. I'll try and update this post when my 14tb arrives in the next few days.

Hi Phil, thanks a lot for this video. I recently got 2 MyBooks 12TB same look (Orange Box) and they came both with WD120EDAZ (Helium filled, as Crystal Disk Info reports) inside You have Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year 2021, hopefully healthy, mate! :-)

thank you

Orange box, from Canadian Amazon. Got an EDAZ.

Just shucked an orange box 8TB from Best Buy USA, minutes ago, inside was a WD80EDDAZ white label. Date of Manufacture was 16 Jul 2020, Thailand.

WD60EDAZ 6TB from an orange box, bought on Amazon UK last week.

Got 2 of the Orange box ones at Costco Canada, I got WD80EDBZ drives out of them.

great video, straight to the point have you had any experience with 6TB drives? are there any drives that come with wd red drives?

Pretty good video, I fugged up and broke the tip of a little triangule looking bump, but that was me not using enough plastic to separate before pushing There's 5 of those symetrically distributed around the sides Mine came in an orange box, WD60EDAZ and an RM 650x PSU, since some PSU won't directly let you use the drive and you'll have to tape the third pin of the power supply contact

The credit card hint is amazing. I was able to free 2x 18TB HDD from MyBook Cases. There are 4 T10-Torx Screws that hold the drive.

Hi, thanks for the video. Sorry, I'm a newbie, so the one with SMR (air filled) technology is the better one?

Thanks! Was able to remove an otherwise flawless WD80EDBZ from an enclosure with power supply that wasn't working! Danke Schön!!

You saved my ass! Much appreciated!

Thanks

Thanks for the instruction. WD40EDAZ, White, Thailand, 16 July 2020, from WD Home, 6gps sata.

This has been the easiest shuck to realize. All the other ones are doing it from both sides employing guitar plugs, which most probably (?) have to buy beforhand, but this version just uses an old cut up credit card or similar and working from the rear makes it very simple, because the clamps to be addressed / opened are only on this side if you examineing the case more closely afterwards. None of the clamps broke using this method. Just use a little force to push the drive etc. out the front without breaking anything. Thanks for this video :-) The HDD itself ist been held on each side by two screws mounted deep inside those rubber "bullets" used for decoupling the drive. Just unscrew them and the drive comes out quite easily. Don't forget to look for the 3.3 V pin "trick" mentioned elsewhere here, to have the drive up and running like any other HHD, but a lot cheaper...