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.
CMR vs SMR
https://www.buffalotech.com/blog/cmr-vs-smr-hard-drives-in-network-attached-storage-nas
Clear Disk Info
https://www.carifred.com/cleardiskinfo/
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I got my WD 2Tb it's now almost exhausted
external hard disk enclosures makes it quite convenient to use disks as portable drives.
Why Would Any Numpty Give This Video A Thumbs Down? WHAT A SPANNER!!!!
nice quick video, gutted I couldnt get 2 of these myself, was a bargain
Hi is there any problems with Voltage seen a few vids where pins have to be jumped thanks for the video
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.
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 <$15 per TB for large internal drives with enclosures for more external drives.
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.
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
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.
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.
Hello Brian. Does this pertain to the 2.5" drives as well?
Nice video and handy stuff. Good job and thanks for sharing this video.
Now I know why my debit card never works, I've been shucking too many external hard drives with it. 😂
Great video thanks.
Are you compresssing your sound? You still have some noise, sorry to say.
Any idea if the Driver card that you removed would conect and work with older and say non WD drives?
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.
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.
I thought the SMR shingled drives are not good unless used for long term data storage. Not for heavy use otherwise. Is that true?
Seagate's CMR NAS drives are a bit cheaper and I could tell zero difference
Didn't know about the 10 & 12TB tier distinction. Cheers.
Hi Brian. That was a very very kind thing you did for (Scrap it Man) 😇 👍
how to move windows 10 from an x370 platform to a x570 without losing anything. Can you make a video on this.
Be careful I have cut myself a few times doing this.
I was able to clam my warranty outside of the case on one of these FYI.
Been doing this for years