How to Shuck HDD. DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT FOR REPLACING A FAILED DRIVE. This is strictly for harvesting or "shucking" the HDD for placement into another device. (In this case a Ubiquiti Cloud Key Gen 2)
The way you did it looks very aggressive but it gave me tons of ideas on how to do it a little bit "better" thank you for your sacrifice and for the courage to do it before of us cowards.
finally the only video in the world that shown the sata connector where you know you can use it as a sata. 99.9 of other video tear down never shows this part. you would think they know better.
Thanks for this video I used it to open a Seagate 5TB One Touch drive which is exactly the same as the Backup Plus drive. I have also opened a Expansion Portable drive which also has a similar drive inside. Both drives were Seagate Barracuda 5TB drives. Thanks again!! very helpful.
This was hard to watch... good info but the screwdrivers, nooo. Any "shucking" with electronics I use the trim removal tools I bought off Amazon. Works great and no damage to the equipment. Good to know re the hard drive though, I have the same one so definitely doing this also and turning it into an internal version.
I bought some feeler gauges from an auto parts store for less than $10. They're thin pieces of metal that are great for slipping between plastic crevices to pop fasteners. My feeler gauges are angled, and I usually start with the thinnest to get in then use thicker to pop the fastener.
Thank you for this, in my case the USB port broke, the plastic center piece that holds the contacts inside the port broke off, the contacts were still there but bent slightly, and the connector would no longer stay in place or make reliable contact. Since I have a StarTech SATA to USB3 adapter, I wanted to just remove the drive and use that adapter, which I just did thanks to this video.
Thank you for making this video. Mine failed three days out of the box, and I'm hoping it's that pesky USB adaptor. I read somewhere California has a class action suit on these drives. Thanks again.
@@DuffmanPimp Hey so, this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Can shucking out a failed drive to try and see if the adapter was the issue worth it? I also read today that WD adapters failing result in the whole drive failing, is it he same for SEAGATE? Thank you.
@@AkshayKumarX I’ve never heard of the data adapter causing a catastrophic failure on a drive. Usually that’s from the drive hardware being faulty. I would definitely shuck a “dead” drive and connect directly to a mobo sata cable to see if it’s truly dead. You might even be able to recover data if you don’t reformat it.
I got same drive but it suddenly stops spinning with blinking white light, what could have been the problem?,been using it for 3years as it is portable hard drive then that happens..
Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up getting a set of plastic body panel tools for my truck and have since used those. they work well for this kind of work.
Just one tip: Always do a surface scan of the hard drive (which could take 12-14 hours), for example with HDD Scan b/c a few months ago I had to return 3 of those Seagate HDDs in row b/c of either bad sectors or poor sector reads which significantly affected the read speed and would obviously put your data in jeopardy. They were probably part of a bad batch perhaps due to transport issues? So I went to a different Costco location and the drive I got there was flawless.
hey ,after teardown ,can it use on the laptop that it have 2.5" drive slot ,can fit inside ?! i see it have same ,sata interface but the thickness is more than 1/2 tb hdd thickness ,if you have laptop with 2.5" hdd ,can you try do it and see can this fit inside!
Standard HDD data rates. About 100MB/sec. I use mine as an NVR at much lower rates so I can’t comment on true performance. However it appears to search historical video well. I’m still using it and have no errors so far.
I have 4 of these already on order, going to load up a DS418, thanks for confirming what I thought! Can you tell me the specific Model Number on your drive?
Is this really worth doing? Does a shucked drive have the same life as a "legit" drive, or will it lose data and fail faster? Assuming you can use this mutant thing in a standard laptop space at all?
It’s only cheaper if you get one on sale. I got mine for less than $100 via Costco, and I think on eBay they were running 120-130……but, I couldn’t verify that the eBay devices were new and unused prior to purchase. I listed the drive model number and it’s the exact drive you can buy retail…..I use this drive in my Network video recorder, which has a very high write rate, refreshing data every 30 days or so. Many other Unifi Protect owners use this drive and have no problems, even as a NVR storage. I figure laptop usage would be even better. Also, I listed the drive height previously. Hope this helps and thanks for watching.
What size is that hard drive? It looks smaller than a desktop type drive, but smaller than a laptop drive. What am I missing? Id like to buy a portable case to replace the one I took it out of, but most look thin and used for a laptop hd and this puppy looks rather thick.
@@jumbo1402 Had a wd mypassport that failed, took it apart to find they use their own proprietary control board, no sata connector it's a straight up usb 3 connector only.
$200 on amazon without the case and Sam's Club retail store has it for $120 with the case. The black color on Amazon instead of silver is $100 right now. What is the purpose of having a case for the external HHD? I know just keep it organize.
