Open / Dismantle the Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive to use as an Internal Drive

[@sandradalziel5881]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. My Father and I were about to begin the setting up of my NAS system with the Seagate expansion drive. He was a computer genius for over 50 years and he passed away before we could get into the project. I had all the parts and needed to figure out how to get to the drive. In the middle of my meltdown, missing my Dad, I found your video and I can now continue with my project. Again, THANK YOU for this video. Should I purchase more drives, I will utilize your link.

[@alank3174]

This was a beautiful read thanks for posting this

[@RedFieryFastflamer]

Sorry for your loss same issue here though i need to gain access to my grandpas old system and reset the password without loss of data

[@michaeldriston1513]

THANK YOU!!!!! I fiddled with this thing for half an hour, looking for hidden screws underneath the rubber pads, etc. I was ready to just jam a screwdriver in and bust it open, before I did another search and found your video. Really appreciate the short and sweet instructions that get right to the point. You got my like and subscribe in appreciation!

[@richiev63]

6 years later and it's still good info. I saw the seam and figured that was the process, but you confirmed it. I just cracked open a 5TB with a failed HDD. The enclosure and USB PCB will be great for connecting old drives for data recovery. Thank you.

[@TerryMundy]

Thanks for posting this video. It took an extra tool, Dremel with cutoff wheel, to cut around the edge. The 6TB was a breeze using a strong flat blade screwdriver to get it started. Once there was a gap i was able to pry apart using my fingers and a wide blade screwdriver. Now I have them mounted in a removable bay inside my tower. Again, much appreciated.

[@JoeBob79569]

My Seagate drive just died, and I was a bit reluctant to take it apart until I saw this. Turns out there were a lot of spider corpses inside, melted on to the circuit board, probably shorted it out, or maybe the adapter died. I didn't want to smash up the enclosure in case I had to RMA it. But I'm using it as an internal drive now and it's working just fine! Thanks!

[@lancerfrom2007]

you can say you got your seagate debugged.

[@JoeBob79569]

@@lancerfrom2007 Yea, apparently that's where the name came from, removing actual bugs from those big-ass computers back in the day..

[@lancerfrom2007]

@@JoeBob79569 i know. That was the joke.

[@cdurkinz]

Thank you I really appreciate this. I knew I'd need to pry something but it always helps to watch someone else do it first. Got my 16TB Exos out of the enclosure perfectly. Great vid.

[@adriandebono6389]

I have found sliding 2 pieces of paper inbetween the crack and then sliding an old card (like an old credit card / membership card) inbetween those 2 pieces of paper is fantastic for this sort of thing. For one you can adjust the width of it by moving from just the corner to the whole thing and its often softer than the plastic used on the external hdd case. I use it all the time to undo clips on laptops. Works a treat and from my experience didn't mark like metal tools do.

[@robertj9511]

This video keeps on giving, just opened 16 TB version, Exos X16 ST16000NM001G inside. More or less the same process, I kept my screwdriver vertical to the seam, gently pulled it along the seam with one hand and rotated the screwdriver some 45-90 degrees with another every cm or so (half an inch) listening for the pops. Took about a minute, 2 of some 25 clips survived the process. Wandering how long before someone posts "Just opened 1 PB version" ...

[@Lexington89]

nice video, my man! to the point, no blabbering, well articulated speech, good video length, showed everything with explanations! just perfect.

[@MikeCorsten]

There's nothing worse than finding a video of what you want and they blabber for twenty minutes

[@LastRenegade00]

Perfect video to the point. I also liked the part where you had mentioned about your hdd rpm, as most dismantling videos don't mention the speed. Thanks

[@firstonemedia]

Got a 7200RPM in my 6TB Seagate External. It's also about $80 cheaper than the standalone in this country - a 30% discount.

[@91Nickson]

Thanks, that's what I needed. Sometimes you can really mess up this things, because they're not made to be easily opened.

[@oldmanmonza7780]

Thanks Mate! Mine was a little different, but watching your video I was able to fine the seam on mine. What a bloody nightmare! Thankfully only my USB connector was busted and the drive is fine.

[@03AccentVA]

Much appreciated, I was on the right track and started to second guess as i couldn't get the pry tool in that gap..... Time to keep digging!

[@RWWerner]

Thank you for this video. Another use case scenario: Since these Seagate external enclosures do not have an actual power switch, one might be inclined to remove the drive from these, and put in a proper enclosure that has a power switch. Relying on buggy power saving features of operating systems isn't always best.

[@brentevans47]

Super helpful and to the point saved me money and the stress of being without storage now I can use my 4Tb drive internally thanks again man 🙏 liked and subbed forsure

[@TheBinaryWolf]

Nice tutorial...clear and concise. No music drowning out the voice. Well done! Thanks. My issue is that the data connection is unstable: sometimes the drive disconnects, and I must jiggle the connector, until the pilot light comes back on, and connection is restored. The wire is OK, and the power cable registers a steady 12VDC. Since the female connector is fixed to the circuit board inside, looks like I need to salvage the drive and discard the enclosure (poor quality control by Seagate). But I will try cutting back the plastic on the male plug, so that it mates better with the recessed jack. Sigh!

[@RetroJackal]

Same thing happened to mine. Tried plugging a separate HDD which I know is good and it didn't show up on my PC. The connector died. Trying the Seagate HDD on my Technet docking station confirmed the drive was still good.

[@TheBinaryWolf]

@@RetroJackal I replaced the cable from power transformer to the HDD and have had no problems since.

[@senoritapippajones1446]

I,ve got the same problem with my 5Tb Seagate, so just purchased an Orico USB3.0 Interface Series, managed to remove the drive okay, but not sure if I can preserve the data, as the Orico wants to re-format the disk before letting me use it.

[@GlennsFastReviews]

The seam on my 6TB HDDs was a bit different, but this video still confirmed to me that I could open the case. Thanks!

[@thorbre577]

I bought the 10TB one a little while back, and the speed is just NOT up to snuff. Kinda took me back to the LaCie external drive I bought in the early 2000's, but that one was atrociously slow, this in comparison was blazingly fast. I digress, this worked well, it's in my PC now, and I was able to put an empty 4TB drive in the external case (just to have some wiggleroom, lol), with very little battle scars. Got it pieced back together, and it still works with another HDD, just had to delete the volume.

[@christopherhornervlogs7816]

Short, easy to follow and concise. Thank you.

[@BM-iz8cd]

bought one of these in the 8tb size and decided to replace the SMR drive with a recycled ironwolf from my NAS. The enclosure LED doesn't light up with a different drive interestingly enough. I swapped the original SMR drive back in and it lit up but when I swapped the Ironwolf back in, it wouldn't illuminate. Weird.

[@weatherchaser1166]

the 6TB is on sale for 99.99 and the 8 is 140. Sometimes they plop two drives in these boxes like one from WD I used to have.

[@zin7500]

If you struggle finding an entry point, then try a corner. I had to lift it with a fingernail and jam in the tool. Then it was fairly easy to get off the housing.

[@soc9491]

Does the USB-SATA PCB do hardware encryption? That is, will we be able to read the data if we disassemble it and plug it into our PC's SATA? Many hard disks's USB-SATA converter do a hardware encryption such that the data is not readable if you take them out and you have to re-format them.

[@Buguese]

Man Kind of a bummer that my drive doesn't power up,so I guess I might have to physically remove it and sata to usb cable it instead Thanks to this video,now I know how to take it apart

[@Rocky-bz8wr]

I did this with 2 3TB Seagate External drives in 2013 and both worked fine up until this month where one of them just all of a sudden just started making a clicking noise and died. The other one is still working fine though. The price for the external drives at the time was way cheaper than if I was to buy the drives as bare OEM drives. Even with one of them failing after 6 years of use I more than got my moneys worth from the drives. The drives them selves are actually fairly fast big file copies from one to the other drive was normally around 140-195 Megabytes a second so no real complaints with the performance. I guess the 7200 RPM spin rate and decent cache on these drives helped a lot with the performance. I have since replaced the 1 failed 3TB drive with a 8TB Seagate drive and it actually feels a bit slower probably because of the 5400-5900 RPM rate but the cache is at least 256 Megabytes. The new drive seems to only sustain 115-185 Megabytes so a bit slower than the older 3TB 7200 Drives.

[@reesejenner3594]

Will this void my warranty? Any way to put it back in the case without Amazon/Seagate knowing? To the inside clips always break when opening?

[@tonymurphy30]

Many thanks for the video, managed to extract my 6Tb drive from it's plastic prison. Seagate seem to have made the extraction process one-way, every single clip on the lid is broken (why they need so many is a mystery too!)

[@leojbourne]

Worked great. I used a box cutter razor to start and a flathead screwdriver to pry apart. I opened the case because the Seagate 8TB drive inside had failed, and I wanted to try a different USB interface to see if that was the problem. The new interface kit didn't get a tone recognition from my laptop when I plugged in the USB. I reinstalled the old one and it did get the tone, even though the drive wasn't recognized because it had failed. Not sure if that has any significance, but thought I'd mention it.

[@JuanCarlos-on8pj]

Hi, thanks for the video and sharing your expertise. I was wondering if the HDD could be replace by a unit bigger in the same box. I mean, do you think it would work?. Thanks

[@BartechTV]

Yes, absolutely. It’s just a standard SATA drive. You could replace it with a larger one.

[@JuanCarlos-on8pj]

@@BartechTV Thank you. I was not sure if the manufacturer is putting some limitations in the firmware just to obligate you to buy a new drive with more capacity.

[@echristopherson78]

How important is the foil (and sticking it down well) if one were to put the shucked drive back in the enclosure?

[@SkyShazad]

Awesome video thankyou, what is the silver foil that is holding the drive in its place for??

[@cfgdr3]

I think it is used to hold the USB board aligned to the hard drive during assembly. I would save it (stick it to the inside of the plastic cover) in case it's needed when you attach another drive into the external case. That way you can find it if you need to reapply it.

[@ruedigersyt]

Another good reason to get the drive out of the case: The outside USB-connector was damaged by a jerk on the cable, and now has connectivity issues. Thus, the only way to continue using the drive is "outside of the box", so without the enclosure.

[@pwagner650]

Thank you so much. When I pulled the USB cable out of my enclosure one day, the entire socket glued to the PCB board came away with the cable! Oops! Now I'll either plug in internally or find a new USB enclosure.

[@user-hn2wc3fy7y]

I have a few 8TB versions of these that run slow as hell in this enclosure over 3.0. I'm thinking of either putting them internal or rehousing them in a future 3.2 enclosure so I don't have to populate it off the bat with new drives lol. We'll see if it makes a difference. Really depends on why they started running slowly.

[@hagnerplaylists]

Great video. Fast and to the point.

[@mariusm369]

Thanks for manual how to open it. Very handy.

[@TheRealLink]

Thanks a ton. Getting horrible transfer speeds with mine (defragged but mostly full) so just not sure if I'm having a controller issue or what. But I figure docking the actual drive is faster and I didn't see how to tear it apart. Helpful!

[@norman3847]

Hi, Can I take this Seagate HDD and put my old WD HDD disk instead of it ?

[@BartechTV]

Yes, you can. Any 3.5" SATA drive will fit.

[@Audrius9Ro]

i just cant uderstand why this HDD are cheaper then simple 3,5 hdd ?? u know there is an aditional BOX and adapter from sata to USB.... and still its cheaper??? how this can be ?? why ??

[@rodrigofilho1996]

Market segmentation, if they start to sell average quality high capacity HDDs for cheap they will sell less expensive enterprise HDDs, yes enterprise HDDs have SAS and are way more reliable but if a consumer grade HDD with the same capacity costs 4 times less then it becames the better buy thanks to most servers having lots of redundancy.

[@steveyg777]

Hi there thanks for the video. I'm intending to do this too. However I'm wondering that if i have a problem with the drive in the future will my warranty be voided if i removed it from the case? Like, is it possible to get it back in the case without it looking like it's been tampered with or not? - is it possible to remove without breaking anything?

[@saracooper6340]

each snap is broken. 26 of them. But it will still snap shut and look normal. i doubt they could tell. just have to get the tape back on and remove fingerprints

[@fernandokasuia8176]

Thanks for the vídeo, from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@ricosun]

I am thinking about using this HD as an internal HD, But does it sound very loud ?

[@BartechTV]

Yes, it is very loud.

[@arendkolk1]

hi, my seagate model SRD0NF2 stopped working. Any ideas on how to get the data off the disk?

[@BartechTV]

It depends if it's the drive itself that is broken, or the SATA to USB bridge, or the cable, or the power supply. It could be many things. If the drive is still working you can just open up the enclosure, remove the drive and connect it to your computer by SATA. If the drive is broken then your only option is a data recovery service. Recovering data from a spinning hard drive isn't something that you can do yourself at home with a large chance of success.

[@Squib1911]

Excellent video This helped me to resolve my issue. Thanx.

[@jeffb6276]

Make sure to pry the lower case away from the lid part that you are removing. I pried upward on the lid and it snapped the clips that retain the lid to the case

[@joonasfi]

Thanks for giving me the confidence to do it (just did it succesfully) by showing the process! Much love from Finland

[@HellGatefr2]

Thank you, very helpful. I was surprised to see that in SATA my 6 TB one can sustain 180 MB/s read and 159 MB/s write, pretty good for a 5400 rpm hdd ! ST6000DM003

[@khotso100]

My new hard drive stopped working after I did this. Nothing seems to be damaged. Makes a clicking sound and led light not turning on. Wanted to use the Sata connector (I think that's what its called) on my old external hard drive. Which doesn't work still. LED flickers but hard drive silent... Please help!!!!!!

[@lockedin60]

A little late but i have a question. Would you know if Seagate would have a replacement case tor the HDD? The Seagate Drive is okay but that flimsy USB 3.0 Micro-B female input connection is not keeping cables connected very well.

[@JohnyKnox]

I would go for an upgrade if I were you and either order online or pick up at a computer store an enclosure using your connection of choice. I picked up a few Usb-c enclosures for about $20 each. Just follow this video to remove the drive and install it in the new case. Just like that you have an upgraded drive.

[@M33K3RZ]

Thank You you don't know how much I love you.

[@Taketheshot56]

Thank you sir was about to toss the drive and pay for recovery saved me alot of money!

[@gerbear3227]

hi - did you fix the drive and use it as external or did you install it in pc? i dropped mine and now its now powering up at all......i want to continue using it in original external format but if i have to install it in a laptop to recover teh data myself thats what ill do.....anyh help much appreciated?? cheers

[@PepeTheJonkler]

@@gerbear3227 Open it up and see if the SATA-DATA bridge (the thing wiggled off in the vid) is loose. Could have also broken the connector, but there's no way to know unless you try. Just unplug it from the power first. Unplug and replug the bridge to see if it works again. If not, that likely means the platter on the inside of the drive was likely scratched by the read arm from the shock. There's not much that can be done there. Go with Solid State and you won't have those problems. Hopefully it can be fixed though.

[@hussainmahmoud7881]

When removing external hdd from case, will the data be preserved?

[@BartechTV]

Yes, of course.

[@hussainmahmoud7881]

@@BartechTV Thank you, was afraid it won't be recognized or needing format upon shucking hdd.

[@trendylectrik]

Can you help me? I need the charger output specifications.

[@BartechTV]

12 volts @ 1.5 amps for 18w.

[@jasonmeister6988]

Man I had so many problems with these HDDs, I never could copy large files etc without IO Errors. But thanks to your video I open the Case and put the HDD in a different Case and then it worked... The Barracuda HDD in there arent that bad its the USB-Plate thingy that makes the problems

[@Lexington89]

Hi, I just did all this with my 2TB Seagate drive, but I can't use it, saying that is not accesible and that a "drive that does not exist was specified". Can you (or anyone) help me with this?

[@RappersDelight808]

Hi I have taken out my old Seagate drive as the power wasn't working, so now I've taken it out its about 5.5" X 4" and that isn't going to fit anywhere. How do I get my information off of it? I can't think how? It's got some important stuff so I really need to fix it, I don't think it will work just using a connector as it's a strange size and needs power. Any idea? thanks

[@someuser4166]

Thank you. I have one of these that I use for backup but backing up 10+tb over USB 3.0 is so slow, I'd rather use SATA

[@joshualawton57]

I'm really glad I did all of this to clean the drive to only realise it was the cleanest thing on earth already and I broke every single clip for absolutely no reason 😭

[@Milo19970]

Great video. So you can just replace the drive if it breaks am I correct?

[@aram1sblog]

Worked pretty well but i cant use the sata usb adapter for an other hdd it could not initialize... You got any help for that

[@lockedin60]

Can the 3.0 USB connection be replaced I have a 3 TB Seagate Expansion drive and the 10-pin 3.0 interface is loose so when you plug a standard 10-pin micro-b cable in it droops. I know mechanical devices do not get better over time. I had another external HDD and swapped over the files. I have since found out that I can use a 5-pin micro-b cable and the drive works perfectly. I am content just using it in 2.0 USB mode because I am going to be using it primarily as a backup drive.

[@mylifeinjust10minutes64]

So I did this with 3 of these and none of them were being detected by the pc and tips on why that is is much appreciated btw I’m making into internal drives

[@bartvoskulen3243]

Thanks so much. Just what I was looking for!

[@paulandrade2579]

THAT GOOD BUT HOW DO TO GET SCREWS OF TO GET TO THE DISK I CAN ONLY SEE THE RIGHT SCREWS WHERE ARE LEFT SCREWS HIDDEN

[@kurentmalik]

I have a question. I just got a new one with 4TB and when it starts to work, I can hear it? My old HDD drives are silent but this one can be heard. What do I hear, the spinning?

[@bigfisher42]

Hi. I'm looking for a 16tb drive. There is a 200 euros difference between the Seagate IronWolf Pro model and the Expansion desktop drive one. What would be the difference between those two? I plan to use it for my movies NAS. So a lot of writing once I got it but little to no rewrite/erases/modifications afterwards and mostly playback. What would be best for this use? CMR, SMR?

[@jinxyle]

You ever try it? im thinking of doing the same thing

[@gerwinbloemberg]

This worked for me too. However it might be interesting to know that the loud clicks you can hear on the video is the sound of breaking a clip. Therefore this procedure is not reversible.

[@ChiversCorp]

I reassembled mine

[@rsimpkins1601]

Just found a 5tb. Willextract drive..thanx for post

[@johnnyc62491]

worked great! only broke all 26 tabs! lol

[@ChiversCorp]

Me too

[@8lec_R]

2 of mine are still intact

[@Mayflower96]

Hey, hopefully someone can answer this. I have the 5TB model of this drive, and I've used about 4TB of it. I would like to put it into my desktop. Is my data safe and easily accessible by just shucking it and plugging it into my PC via SATA? Thanks.

[@jgrabner]

As usual a backup is always advised, but other than that, it will work because the filesystem on the drive is the same, regardless of whether it is accessed via USB->SATA or directly via SATA.

[@Mayflower96]

@@jgrabner Thanks! Everything worked out fine. Really appreciate your reply.

[@GalenVaughn]

Looking to buy one but I can’t find anywhere if this is 7200rpm or not

[@BartechTV]

As I mention in the video it's a 5900 RPM ST3000DM003

[@nikanj]

Damn this bastard is really on tight. I was hoping to reuse the enclosure but if it takes too much longer I'm going to have to get out the dremel.

[@ajking7858]

I am moving from a laptop to a desktop. I would like to make my 8TB Seagate External Backup Pus Hub drive into an internal drive in my desktop. I was wondering how that would all work so I could still access my DATA? I would greatly appreciate any input I can get. Thank you

[@Surannhealz]

It shows up the same. The name of the disk might change because it's not going through the USB bridge anymore. But it should work exactly the same.

[@KrolPower]

Just wanting to double check before I do this....that is a 3.5" drive right?

[@BartechTV]

Yes, it's 3.5".

[@AdamAdam-qt5kt]

@@BartechTV SATA 3.5 ?

[@Forever_Thatter]

I tripped over the cable and I pulled the drive down with me. It fell about 1 meter but hit a bit hard, and it was on when that happened (google says that's a very bad thing). It turns on - steady blue light and hums/whirs when first plugged in, but then it slows down to almost nothing and doesn't load at all, as if it's not plugged in. I was forwarded to your video from TechSupport discord, was told to plug it in directly into SATA. I'm a total hardware noob and I'm terrified lol, that I won't be able to make this work. I got it open in front of me but I'm instead watching and rewatching your vid...stalling. No apparent physical damage visible.

[@vindicatelol]

so uh I dismanteled the hard drive and put it in my pc's hdd slot and it doesn't recognise it when I put it on. What am I doing wrong?

[@corksocker7727]

Go to your bios and enable the sata that you plugged it into. Then you will have to format it through disk management.

[@vindicatelol]

@@corksocker7727 that's weird cuz another hdd I got from my parents worked immediately after I put it in the sata. I also have 5tb of stuff on it and it would suck to lose it. idk

[@hamadmalmajed]

@@vindicatelol CHANGE FORMAT TO EXFAT AND IT WILL WORK :)

[@andrewlarson9002]

I'm trying to open it the rest of the way to try to fix it after being dropped. I want to continue to use it as an external hard drive.

[@gerbear3227]

Andrew - did you get it fixed and how? i dropped mine and now it wont power up when connected to ac adapter and laptop usb? its 4tb and almost full..........tonnes of important work on it! any help please would be appreciated! cheers

[@clarkbilly5670]

I don't see any way to pry open my seagate drive. there is no gap anywhere! the entire exterior is sealed. i can't get any power to it. i plug it in and nothing happens. i don't want to break the plastic casing. Seagate - Expansion Desktop 4TB External USB 3.0 Hard Drive - Black Model:STEB4000100 SKU:8686213 best buy aug 2020 . help plz.

[@BartechTV]

It can't be entirely sealed or they wouldn't have been able to put the drive inside the case. There is a gap around the edge.

[@clarkbilly5670]

thanx. i found it @@BartechTV

[@SGADRM]

Thanks for the instructions, feel confident to do this now. If there's data on the drive will you lose it when you connect it as an internal drive or will it keep everything intact?

[@BartechTV]

Everything that was on the drive will still be there.

[@hark9447]

Hey man, I know this isn't the subject of the video but, I saw on your channel that you worked with an EOS M and Magic Lantern and shot some raw footage, I was wondering if you knew how to get rid of dots and effectively edit Eos m raw footage? I would really like it if I could pick your brains and ask some questions.

[@movieshake4945]

Would it Work if I have my main hard drive that is an 480gb ssd and then have a 4TB HDD as the second? I play games such as rainbow six siege and gta 5

[@BartechTV]

Yes that would work, it's the setup most people have. You keep Windows on the SSD and then use the hard drive for games / films / music etc.

[@movieshake4945]

BarTech TV Alright thank you

[@tomk4t]

Easy peasy. Have a 8tb Seagate Expansion barracuda HDD. I recently upgraded my PC. Gave it a new MB, CPU, RAM, SDD, etc and upgraded to Windows 10 as well. Upon boot up, the HDD was no longer recognized in disk management, the console, or the boot menu. Tried it on another PC, nothing. As a last effort, I did this. Works fine. Absolutely nothing is wrong with the disk. The USB bridge must have failed or possibly the cable I was using?

[@knmonlinemedia]

the usb part ripped out and i wondered how to open this thing up. i'll build a pc around it. thanx for the walkthru

[@kiduskidane765]

Can i turn this drive to internal hdd for desktop

[@BartechTV]

Yes.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

Thanks, SATA to USB adapter failed on my 4 TB drive, works fine via SATA or DOCKING station! Seagate has bad SATA to USB converters and bad USB cables otherwise my experience with Seagate has been very good, unlike WD which for others seems more reliable lol!

[@realsentientpotato]

I thought i was the only one. I've always had issues with WD

[@L5Rocks]

I went through this but my PC doesn't pick up the drive in the bios. Tried multiple different PC's

[@rperlberg]

This video might explain how to fix that: How to disable the 3.3v pin on Western Digital USB White Label Drives kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4rUfqFnpaiFmpo

[@AIOIA101]

Thanks. Very helpful and exactly to the point.

[@Babak_Ahari]

Start by removing the the foam triangle leg and place a support under it 😉

[@slartibartfast42]

I followed that and it all worked perfectly.. Thanks

[@slartibartfast42]

Would just add that a prying tool makes it so much easier to get the case open.

[@connorspies]

It's ridiculous that an external HDD goes for $144, but the equivalent internal hdd cost is $155. Seagate, why are we pay $11 more for plastic we don't need? Many people are taking the shell off of these to use as an internal drive.

[@Emexrulsier]

the drives inside external enclosures are actually quite slow speeds often even slower than 5200 and often have less cache and slower read/writes. Because they are on the USB bus its a waste to put a faster drive in that wont even get utilised.

[@silentwitness536]

@@Emexrulsier True. Theses external seagate barracada 4tb ones are 5400rpm. Some of the other Seagate barracuda 4tb ones are 7200rpm (15% faster) which might (in not all cases) account for the price difference.

[@fireblazer6661]

@@Emexrulsier mine have mostly been 5400 rpm. But unless you want to pay a lot extra, you get a 5400 RPM INTERNAL drive as well. For example, right now I can buy an 8tb external... for 170 CDN +tax. BUT the internal is 195+tax (cheapest internal, still also ONLY 5400rpm) with a mediocre cache. So I'm trying to debate whether I wanna buy some 170 dollar drives or pay the extra 25 and get internals. Big drives are selling out fast because of that stupid CHIA cryptocurrency, so I feel like I should probably get 1 or 2 before they go sky high like video cards have... Now video cards that were 400 bucks are going for over 1000. So I can't afford to upgrade my PC now, because of bitcoin mining. sigh

[@ivanreis3141]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO.

[@dash8brj]

Got mine open with the pokey tool from my Xbox 360 repair kit and my spudger. Only broke 3 clips :)

[@Almostill]

Do you know if this works for ps4???

[@wesnbeckykenyon1336]

Excellent step by step. Thanks

[@hemellicht]

and what do I do if my seagate disc has a metal shell around the bridge? the screws don't fit any standard screwdriver, and I can't cut it open. trying to retrieve my pictures of pets and relatives. :/

[@kornflakes89]

Get a non-standard screwdriver. Wal-Mart has a bunch of screwdriver sets and Hyper Tough brand tools are pretty cheap.

[@hemellicht]

@@kornflakes89 could you perhaps tell me what a set would be called? we don't have wal-mart in the netherlands :(

[@mikewilson9315]

Cross head screwdriver? That would be Phillips, just as round thing on neck would be head.

[@paultate_com]

Thanks! Very helpful.

[@alexsosa5434]

Thank you for this little tutorial...

[@peterjdenyer]

Thank you! The caddy died on me but the HDD is okay.

[@Anonymous-gu2pk]

​@David Jameson yeah, same thing happened to me. If I unplug everything and plug it back in then it sometimes temporarily works and then stops working again. I've never had a HDD break on me in all of my years, so I expect that it's the external enclosure that just needs to be replaced and I'll be trying that as soon as I receive a new one.

[@Anonymous-gu2pk]

@David Jameson well, I managed to make a copy of all of the really important data (even though I had to keep reconnecting the drive multiple times), but I cannot rely on it anymore if the issue persists, so I am hoping that the new enclosure fixes the problem. If it doesn't then I'll just have to get a new drive. Either way, I always like to keep multiple copies of the most important irreplaceable data, because there's always something that could go wrong with one copy even without the hard drive failing.

[@Anonymous-gu2pk]

​@David Jameson so, I got a new generic enclosure and it has been working fine for a day, we'll see if it lasts, though. I saw another video about external hard drives breaking, because the cases are usually designed to be standing on the side (rather than laying flat on the desk) and if they fall over while in use then something may break. I've never had that happen, so I had no reason to suspect a broken HDD, but if someone else has problems after knocking the drive over then they should know in advance that it's probably not going to be a very easy fix.

[@hypersphereengineering6015]

The cheapest 4Tb internal 3.5" drive I can find is $150. I can buy the Seagate external 4Tb drive for $99. Makes no sense to me considering you get a USB3.0 case chucked in for nothing and it's still 50 dollars cheaper. I'm off to butcher an external drive today.

[@BartechTV]

Exactly. It's never made any sense to me why external drives are cheaper. I'm sure there must be some logic to it somewhere but I just can't see it.

[@hypersphereengineering6015]

@@BartechTV I think the reason is that people don't buy them and external drives are easy to setup. Most people nowadays would buy a new computer before opening it up to swap a drive. I've been pulling computers apart for over 20 years so it's no big deal. Just got back from the shops with my external drive. It took me 5 minutes to remove it. Now I just need to install into my desktop and install an operating system. I ended up getting a 4TB Seagate like your video. Exact same case, had to kind of damage the case to get it open. They used to be screwed now they have plastic bloody clips . Don't care though , it's an internal drive now !!