October 9, 201510 yr Does anyone know what's the drive inside here and if it's easy to harvest? Don't see any reviews or posts from a quick web search on using this as an internal drive because it seems to be a pretty new product.
October 12, 201510 yr They are usually pretty easy to extract but it might void the warranty of the drive? I'm assuming the internal drive is the Toshiba X300 Desktop Internal.
October 12, 201510 yr They are usually pretty easy to extract but it might void the warranty of the drive? I'm assuming the internal drive is the Toshiba X300 Desktop Internal. It will void the warranty.
October 25, 201510 yr I have 8 drives in my pool that I've shucked from externals. I haven't had a single drive fail and all but one are 2+ years old. My rule of thumb is that it has to be 15+ percent cheaper in order to justify the hassle and the loss of warranty.
October 26, 201510 yr So late last year/early this year I bought 2 external toshiba 5TB drives. Shucked 'em. Learned a few things in the process: * Their cases are really hard to open. * They change the drive model number on the HDD label. The warranty website won't acknowledge it. AT ALL. * One drive had 0 bad sectors, the other had 16. It's stable, which is good, because it has no warranty. * The questionable drive makes A LOT more rotational and head access noise. I just swapped it out and will use it as a secondary backup drive. I'd warranty exchange it but... Since then switching back to buying bare 3.5" HDDs, yeah, it's an extra 10 or 20 bucks, but I'll pay that for warranty exchange privileges. ALSO - black Friday HDD prices are coming. Might be best to wait a month if you can.
October 26, 201510 yr You can test the drives before you shuck them while they are still in their external cases. Plug them in and use the unassigned devices plugin and the pre-clear plugin. Only shuck perfect drives.
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