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today what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna be shucking this ez store WD from Best Buy what shucking is
is that you know you removed three and a half inch hard drive that comes in these external
hard drive enclosures so you can use them in your network attached storage or your Nass
or your desktop inside a desktop computer the reason why a lot of people do that is because
you can usually get these external hard drives on a pretty deep discount on sale or whatever it is
on lots of promos from Best Buy Amazon Walmart wherever you know that they sell external hard
drives and a lot of times the manufacturers they'll end up putting pretty premium drives
in these if they're not premium drives they're still desktop quality drives at you know 30 40
50 dollars less than what the bear drive would cost you just to go out and buy a bear dry and
you know it's a great value for people that can do that in a container with it the WD ez
store is actually this very similar to the WD elements this is that the Best Buy version of
it that they sell only exclusively at Best Buy they usually have these on sale I think they're
up to fourteen gigabytes now on this external drive and you know I'll post links to all the
various sizes on you know on Amazon or on eBay or wherever I see them that's a good deal so
this one I'm gonna it's a 4 terabyte it comes with a two-year warranty and you know the key
to shucking it is to keep it non-destructive so you want to take it out it's you know without
destroying the case in case you have to do a warranty claim on this hard drive within the
two-year warranty period and the you know the key to that is because now like WDC gate and all the
major manufacturers they actually tied the serial number of the hard drive to the serial number of
the case so when you have a warranty claim you actually have to claim the serial number of the
case not the actual drive you look at the drive it'll be no show up is nothing you know it'll
show up as a you know an OEM drive or whatever is that was part of a either a desktop or you know
some other product like the external hard drive so you need the case if you want to do your warranty
claim and a couple years ago I remember that this same four terabyte WD drive came with red drives
which is when they're premium Nash drives I know this one's not a premium red because I've already
opened one before yeah I bought say over these when they were on sale when I you know at the
time it was 78 dollars or whatever it was when I bought it anyway I'm gonna open it up it's a very
easy to open case and you know it should take you no more than two minutes do it with a credit card
so with these just take a credit card gift card whatever that you haven't used take you need for
them there's actually four clips on either side of the this that you just release the clips on sorry
I think that this one over here is right yeah you'll wedge it in there and then you'll just
feel for the once you can't move up and down then you're right with one of the clips are so
you just press it till it releases and you get the other one you just kind of wedge it right down in
there and so if you're you're looking at here so there's one right here near the lock get get one
in there on this side I think there's one right up here that they're not equally spaced on either
side so you get get that right there and then the one down down at the bottom it's gonna be right
at right with a USB super speed USB is so you push it in this are you here click click click last one
click so I got four clicks and then should be able to
just squeeze it or it up right there just slides right out so
so the case came out no no broken clips all the clips are still intact they're kind of
you know a little bit bent but nothing that would be noticeable so just push them back
so in case you have to use them later so when you get into here the only thing you
got the fiber-optic with a piece of you got the piece of plastic here for the LED light
just remove that thing that goes out and other than that it it pops right out so they've got
some retaining Clips on this side but you don't need it this side it's open so you
just flip it up slide it right out and it pops right out and that's that's all you really need
to do the only other pieces that you got a screwdriver right here one screw to remove
the logic board pop it right out that's the logic board and then the four of these which
they use a hex screw but a lot of times it's pretty loose so you just screw it right off
and there you have it got a bear drive less than two minutes to take apart everything is
non-destructive you haven't broken anything so if you had to put it back together you could put it
back together for warrants so you want to take a closer look at the other tabs on here here it is
so you can look at basically if you're looking at it like this straight to the let's say the right
side of it or the left side of you if you look it back that's where that the clips are and then the
right side they're kind of offset right there with the thing so just gotta stick the card in
there and kind of feel for them and just get it in there and you know you get it straight
on push it in and you just release that tab inside there on each side and then you know
that over here is basically those are the four slots would would it take clipping right there
on either side so you look at from the back you got one right by the USB and then right up here
at the top and then on the other side you had one basically down by the what was it the lock
you had a lock side and then the one about midway through right there so overall very easy this is
a very common drive right now this WD easy store at Best Buy or the WD elements which they're both
essentially the same thing so anyway if you guys liked this video just don't forget to like them
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