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Ya know i never really understood why they use the same exact drive for both internal and external drives, as they just slapped a SATA to USB convertor on and called it a day yet charging less than the internal ones. The external drives just scream "HEY IMA BLEEED MONEY FOR FUN" as when people find out you can just harvest the delectable insides and use it with actual SATA cables the price of them will skyrocket as they should be charging more anyways because of the converter. The SATA to USB convertors alone would be neat as you can easily test to see if drives work without having to mount it plug it in and unplug it Sure the convertors would be niche anyways and more than likely be used by those with laptops and those that wanna take their precious "Homework" folder with them so no one can view it

Then what?

Good afternoon Please tell me how the disc performed over 3 years. Are there any data losses or errors? Has the speed dropped?

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.

Super useful, thanks!

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.

I just had one of these die on me, apparently. The warranty expired in 2021, so I guess it lived an okay life??

9 years later and this video is still gold

Thanks for this video. It made my life so much easier.

Nice. Finally found it.

can it fit in a laptop

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.

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.

Son of a bitch you did 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 a lot for the video, dude.

Yes! I hoped this video existed! I felt obtuse, but just couldn't wrap my head around it. Just got a Kelty H2go outdoor shower tent and it had these tighteners. Thank you!

Thanks! This video was extremely helpful. I just picked up the 4 man tent and didn’t know how these worked.

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.

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.

Thanks for this! Just a suggestion, maybe get a plastic spudger tool to minimize risk and damage to sensitive parts.

Thankyou very much for this as ive been rattling my brain for ages 🙌👍

Very informative nice one! My laptop manufacturer states that the largest capacity hard drive I can put inside my laptop is 1TB I have a Toshiba satellite which I would like to put an external 3TB Or even larger hard drive in. Can you tell me if this is possible and perhaps even recommend a hard drive? TOSHIBA Model Number: PSPLPE-04403REN Family: SATELLITE Name: P70-A-11R

Thanks! Did this a while ago and got another drive and forgot exactly how I did it. This was helpful!

Do inside this, contain disks ? Like internal hdd ?

omg thank you! I couldn't find information on this model anywhere. Much appreciated, great video!

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.

Do you have to cover any SATA pins with tape or similar like on 3.5" hard drives?

That's not how you tie it! You tie the end wrong way. ruclips.net/video/JQOuikG02Q8/видео.html

What size of the HDD drive u find inside 2.5" or 3.5 " and thanks for that video

You are a life saver I'm have been messing with these for 2 days

What is the thickness of the drive? I want to use a drive like that in an HP 110 mini as a nas.

Looks thicker than 7 or 9mm laptop drive??

8 years later, and this video has become my lifesaver!! THANK YOU! I thinking about switching to some other adjusters

Will this laptop fit in laptop?

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?

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!

Awesome. Thanks!

Amazon sells the same drives for 200 USD without external cases, lol

Worked a treat on the 2TB drive. Just saved myself about $60. I’m using it in an old Mac so low end drive is fine.

Thanks alot bro.

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?

Really bad video recording

can i install the drive in normal laptop,,, will size of drive fits the drive bay in laptop

What is the model of this Barracuda 5TB drive?

damn man i got the fake one from china it was western digital inside no wonder i cant runt it on my ps4 hopefully i can get refund

7 years later, still useful. I just got a mountain hardwear tent with a very similar design, couldn’t for the life of me figure out how they worked. Thanks!

Thanks for the video. Can i use this drive as my laptop internal drive. Im not sure it is the same size as the default laptop drives?

Great Video. What is the height of the drive? It looks thicker than the normal ones.

Can I do the same for WD, or it got no SATA interface?