Massive 16TB Shuck! | How to Shuck Hard Drives

[@technofeeliak]

Before I heard of anyone doing this... I bought an HDD at the local office supply store. I asked the salesman if he thought it was possible. He said he wouldn't try it. I did it, it worked, I was very happy with myself having saved a little money.

[@meowwoem6372]

i've had a few usb drives over the years that died. i opened 'em up, put the hdds in a pc and carried on using them. i never knew it was called shucking until an american mate told me about a year ago.

[@lagstorm1]

I used to shuck five trays of oysters before every shift. Never shucked an HDD....yet.

[@Shaunie2k]

I used to do this with both 3.5 & 2.5" drives. However, last time I attempted it on a 2.5" Drive I got burned Western Digital soldered the USB 3.0 Port where the sata port was. Just sharing that experience.

[@NoEgg4u]

@1:26 The reason you clicked on the video, begins.

[@A_Mkty]

Got exactly the same drive as yours and saved a lot of money by doing this. Thanks to you :)

[@fabiano8888]

2 years later, still awesome!

[@PeteMatheson]

Oh thanks! Damn, that was a long time ago I made this :D

[@terrapinflyer273]

Jeez! That's like $1500 worth of storage 😂 I remember in the early days of the PS4, people were buying the older 4TB Seagate Backup Plus external hdd's because they contained 2 2TB Seagate Blue drives, which at the time were among the only 2TB drives that were compatible for PS4 internal storage and weren't soldered to a sata to usb adapter or contained proprietary firmware linking them to said adapter. Fun times! They can still be purchased on Amazon (the one with the silver logo in the corner of the drive), but the price went up big time as they're now discontinued and Seagate probably caught on to what people were doing. The single drives are prob a cheaper way to go now too.

[@SuperSuraj5]

Is there a difference between the 16 TB Seagate expansion - STEB16000402 and STEB16000400 ? Here in India, the former is priced almost the same as the internal Exos drive and the latter is almost half the price. So I was wondering if you or anyone knew what kind of internal drive can be expected from shucking the STEB16000400 drives.

[@TomGeek1980]

@@PeteMatheson Is using an exos drive over an Archive drive any difference?

[@TheChris7797]

does anyone know if the 14TB are also the same exos drives?

[@PlanetCypher_]

Never heard the term, but wow some decent savings if your lucky enough to pick the right external drive.

[@Ssm19494]

My guy has the 2009 spiked faux hawk lol but much respect for the editing on the vid

[@Red-4man]

Not sure if its due to chia coin and or genral inflation/hardware shortages, but as of now the individual drive is actually cheaper than the external one on amazon. I also relize this video is over a year old for anyone about to comment that. I just thought it was interesting.

[@NiklasMalmqvist]

I don’t know if this was the case 2 years ago, but it certainly isn’t anymore. At least not in Sweden. The external drive with the encasing and power supply is 100-150 dollars more, as it should be.

[@GluteMaximuz]

Oyster shells are shucked to open them up. Hence the use of the term.

[@dafyddr8678]

OMG, I've been Shuck'in it for years and didn't realise it ! I'm such a tight sod. Can I use your credit card to open my next one :-). Happy Festive Season matey..

[@andrew8604]

You could create a nas system with those if you want

[@jorisbonson386]

Ah I see - so shuck is the sound the adhesive makes when you're prying open the plastic case sshhhhheeeeeeeuukk.

[@RichardHicksonCPFC]

Typically there now out of stock haha. Thanks Pete!

[@marwi16a53]

Does this specivic drive use SMR or CMR?

[@marwi16a53]

@@PeteMatheson there should be a law forcing SMR drives clearly be marked as such drives... unlike previous inventions to increase the data density SMR is really important for the useage

[@isbestlizard]

Seagate Exos X16 16TB's for 250 quid each, just bought LOADS to run in raidz2 vdevs and i'm going to figure out how to get Lustre working over the top of them for a super resilient cluster file system :D

[@TheDragonballboy]

Cool as video! Dude you look like Kraglin from guardians of the galaxy 2 2017 haha

[@neil1512]

Great video, had never heard the term before.

[@SolentSkyServices]

Very cool find!

[@jimbaokimbao]

Good video. Not heard of shucking before.

[@def5100]

as far as i know its still a reliable HDD but its a EXOS that doesnt live up to the standards of normal EXOS and therefor are thrown into those units but they should still last a LONG time even in 24/7 usage and if youre just running a plex server or some backups here and there then this drive should last way longer than the warranty and should in general just be super good still

[@checkmateatheistsss]

Great video, very informative!

[@JimGriffOne]

£504.69 - They've gone up in price a lot!

[@DaneChan]

i wanted to buy the exos drive, now I will simply buy the seagate expansion drive

[@aymenalhosni1032]

Please please answer me seagate 16tb hdd exos x16 compatibility with synology ds 220+ ??

[@nicngo3253]

You know shucking probably voids the warranty, and in this case, upon checking the warranty status of the drives in the video (which the serials are not blurred), they no longer have a warranty status. Buyers Beware.

[@xanderx51]

Well duh. Always a risk, as was said.

[@majstealth]

one should worry less about "warranties" that could change the day after you bought your device.

[@SuperMichael996]

Can't wait for the HDD industry to die off or migrate or focus more on SSDs so everyone can have M.2 for a competitive price :)) Never gonna give that ~400MB/s up. (And NVMe gets CONSIDERABLY faster)

[@impact0r]

Cost cannot be "cheaper". It can only be "lower" (or "higher"). Products can be "cheaper".

[@jessemedsker2579]

Will shuck a ssd not hdd trash lol