Tearing apart external HD

[Andrew307]

I just got my unraid server online, ready to go!  I have 4 WD externals (3 Mybook essentials and 1 Mybook Elite).  I would like to integrate these into my server.  I plan on moving all the info from one drive onto the server, then opening up the external, removing the drive and putting in the server (with a wipe and parity check of course).  Rinse and repeat for the rest.

 

Has anybody done this with WD externals?  What drive do they have inside?  Thanks!

 

 

[prostuff1]

I just got my unraid server online, ready to go!  I have 4 WD externals (3 Mybook essentials and 1 Mybook Elite).  I would like to integrate these into my server.  I plan on moving all the info from one drive onto the server, then opening up the external, removing the drive and putting in the server (with a wipe and parity check of course).  Rinse and repeat for the rest.

 

Has anybody done this with WD externals?  What drive do they have inside?  Thanks!

 

 

 

It is usually a crap shot, but most of the time it works out just fine.  I have done it with a couple of drives I have gotten over the years.

[lionelhutz]

They should be standard drives. If they are 1.5T or 2T then good bet they are some model of Green drive.

 

Peter

 

[kizer]

I absorbed two Mybooks into my machine. They where both Green WD 500GB. I think I might of replaced one so far, but it was due to upgrading not drive problems. 

[Andrew307]

Success!  Copied everything over and ripped the first one apart.  Ended up being a WD20EADS drive inside. 

[Userpaul]

I found I got a better deal  by selling my externals on ebay and buying new 2TB hdd's 

[blazinlow]

I found I got a better deal  by selling my externals on ebay and buying new 2TB hdd's 

 

thats what i was gonna suggest. you probably could have sold them and ended up with enough for a extra drive

[Andrew307]

I did think about that.  Unfortunetly, I am stationed in Japan and the shipping is way to much to really cut a decent profit.