Regarding the little clear plastic piece that you said you don't know its purpose, it is to carry the optic (light) indicator from the logic board to the front of the enclosure to indicate drive activity.
thanks a lot my dude! just shucked a 3TB drive, turns out it was a WD Green. I only needed to shuck it because i heard something rattling around inside, turns out it was the screw from the board.
You can actually put in another WD drive. I know because I bought two supposedly new Easystore drives and two of them were replaced by much smaller WD drive by someone who then returned the drive. The drives were working BTW.
2022 now, but exactly what I needed. I had the tool set with the guitar picks, but I needed to take it apart without breaking any tabs. My house caught on fire and I wanted to save my external drive hopefully by cleaning the soot and smoke from it. With blessings from above I was able to clean my computer and it is running (I don't know how long it will last, but happy it is still running) I just needed to save my WD Easystore drive for back up and now maybe I have. Big Thank you.😃
Great video, thanks for uploading. I was able to extract the hard drive from its case/shell. But how do I open up the hard drive itself? I think the heads are stuck so I need to rotate the disk and move the heads back to the "parked" position.
Except for the inability to reuse the housings. Kind of kills the appeal. I love how they look on a shelf but its pointless over a drive rack if you can't upgrade them.
I have one of these drives that spin up the. Slows down and keeps repeating. Do you think the logic board is the problem? Can I get another one and take it apart and replace the logic board to get my data back?
Can I use those drives in a NAS Enclosure? I want to buy a NAS Enclosure Diskless, and add my 14TB hard drives, avoiding extra costs. Let me know. Other than that, great video!
@@neverstoptech8487 Depending on the NAS a as I have a WD EX 4100 and it will wipe everything off the drive to it's own OS as Windows doesn't recognize it
Just had to watch this again to reopen my shucked drive. Thanks for the video! Also wanted to mention that I was able to drop in a Seagate drive without any problems.
I have two issues with this video. First off, it's false that you can't use another drive in the enclosure, I know because I stuck a 2tb Seagate in it and it was usable in Windows. Secondly, I've never heard of a manufacture of ANY device not checking the warranty before just replacing it. I couldn't even try to start an RMA on an out of warranty drive without paying the last time I checked a drive warranty.
Apologies the focus was shucking and I didn’t really test another drive as I didn’t have a need and was going by forum talk. If the case is indeed usable then by all means go for it. Second for the warranty I say keep all the shells and they do check but for the most part as long as the warranty is in order and the serials match it’s a ok. Sorry for the misinfo and thanks for pointing it out.
@@neverstoptech8487 I think Jason from Byte my Bits said on one of his shows that if you shuck the drive and don't have the case you can still get warranty on the drive, but it's reduced from 3 years to 2.
@@NotesIn9 Bare drives have a 3 year warranty. The same drives inside the enclosure is reduced to 2 years of warranty. You still need to keep the case if doing a warranty replacement.
