hey welcome back to the channel guys thanks again for watching today what I'm gonna be
doing it is shocking a hard drive so shocking is a actual process of removing the three-and-a-half
inch hard drive that comes in these external enclosures external hard drives that you buy
Best Buy or Amazon or Walmart or wherever you buy your hard drives from and the reason why
people shut them is because you're getting a hard drive that's usually 30 40 50 dollars
cheaper than if it was a bare drive that you bought just for your nafs or your which is the
network attached storage or if it's your desktop computer and sometimes you get lucky and you'll
get one of the premium high-end drives that they put in these external enclosures when they're low
on production or that they've got too many hard drives and though they'll use one of the higher
end ones in here which you never know unless you run some special software before you open it up
to know what's in there in the past I know some of these WDS and C gates they've shipped their
network with patch storage type drives that are designed to run 24/7 so yeah a lot of you know
shutting it will get you a hard drive you know a good value a lot of people that end up taking
them out that they they're pretty destructive with the case what I usually try to do is you
know Chuck all my drives where I still have the case intact in case I have to claim warranty on
it and I've been pretty good at that for most of the the external hard drives I've ever shut
it's all about being careful when you unclip it and even if you break a couple of tabs which I
think for this one it's pretty difficult to get fully off without breaking the tabs you gotta
have enough where if within the two-year warranty period if your drive dies you can put it back in
there ship it back and they they'll do a quick inspection and if it looks like it hasn't been
tampered with they'll honor the warranty I've had it a couple times I've it's works for me so you
know I try to always keep that case intact and the thing with that you know you think well you
know sending back the beer drive well the bear drive in their computer system now is linked to
an external serial number on a case so the drive and the case have to be together or I'll see you
you know they won't are the warranty but you know I'll try to go through that with this one should
be pretty easy I've done one or two before this type so I try it again this time to see how well
looks like is I ended up popping the cover off the wrong side so I'm trying to release the clips on
the backside that's how this whole part comes apart because all the all this the mounts here
come apart the back way so that's so that's the taper decided aside you don't want to take off
on this so I was able to separate everything pretty it non-destructively everything still
in one piece it can be reassembled listen this is the side that ended up popping off that was
wasn't the wrong side there was a tapered side that well it I could have done it without popping
this side because it didn't really need to but it didn't allow me there kind of access that
side better but you could tell right here I've you know some of these clips once you
stick the cards in you start releasing them from there the hooks but you still break a few just
by the putting force on it but it's enough to put back together without anybody noticing and
then inside inside you can see those hooks on here on both sides of the board a clip in you
know you get the card in right in between those you so slowly popping the clips out right there
this is the the lid that you really have to take out to to take it apart but you get so
a lot of these bobby we just bend right back and then those still kind of work and should
pass muster if I have to send back for warrants you find the reason right there the the hardest
part of popping this side would be right up there where near the USBs you got a couple
of those harder clips there and then on this side those they're right here but they're still fully
intact on this side they're not as brittle and easy to break as the other ones and as
far as the hard drive goes just unbolt take out the rubber I think those four screws all around
the corner out and then you slide it right off the logic board you have yourself a fresh
Seagate hard drive anyway you guys like this video just like share and subscribe to their
Channel and I'll continue doing this for different hard drives I see and get thanks for watching