hey what's up everyone so today's episode what am  i do some more computer stuff I show everybody how  

to shuck a harddrive the process of shucking a  harddrive if you guys aren't computer guys or  

you basically buy a portable hard drive which is  usually cheaper than the OEM drives or the ones  

are designed to go into your computers or network  attached storage devices and you take them out of  

the case and use them in your drives and a lot  of times what the manufacturers do is they'll  

they'll put their high-end drives the ones that  they charge usually 50 or 60 dollars more for  

into these dry the external drives and they sell  them for cheaper they usually come with a lower  

warranty but there's still the same drive inside  you know you get a premium drive for a third you  

know probably thirty to forty percent off the  what what the bare drive would have cost so  

what I'm gonna do today is I'm actually got two  w DS that I bought I actually bought these on a  

recent sale I think they're 8 terabytes each for  140 and you know that a lot of places Amazon bnh  

Newegg they were all selling them for the same  price about $140 $145 some places charge tax some  

didn't I ended up buying them from two different  places because what I've learned over the years  

of messing with hard drives and network-attached  drives where you're mirroring data on to drives  

for redundancy and for speed is that if you buy  a defective drive from the same batch the second  

one might become defective or they both kind  of fail around the same time you risk losing  

all your data so what I do is I usually buy one  drive from one store and I buy the other drive  

from in this store because at least that even  though they're same drive the same model that  

gives me some kind a little reassurance that  they might have came from a different batch or  

a different manufacturing day or whatever and they  might not have the same defects if something goes  

wrong so that's what I'm doing so I must show  you how to today just how to take these drives  

out of the case so looking at the these boxes  they're basically what when I got them I looked  

at that first thing I looked at was the serial  numbers they come with their serial numbers of  

the least the portable parts preying on them and  they did had different serial numbers from looks  

like different batches so that was a good sign  one of the things I saw was the above they're  

both tied lion tat Thailand I bought I've done  this before with other drives and I've gotten  

you know two of the same models one from China  one from Thailand so that matters to about the  

quality of the drives and the main reason why I  picked up these so quick was that there's been a  

lot of reports of different WD elements especially  these a terabyte ones coming with their Reds which  

is their network attached storage professional  drives and most recently there's reports of them  

coming with the HGST Helium brides also that's  is another brand that WD bought a couple years  

ago and those helium models were the enterprise  mass drives designed to run 24/7 so that was  

another good find that some people found so  what I'm going to do is when I open these up  

I'm gonna see what they have and I'm gonna go  look up the numbers and see what they tell me

so these WD elements which is the WD retail  version Best Buy sells these as they're easy  

store brand these are probably some of the  easiest to shut that I've messed with in the  

recent past as far as popping it open what I do  is I've got one of these iPhone openers that I  

had laying around I took a old gift card  and just cut into four pieces is kind of  

use it as a as wedges so first what you do is  just kind of use the iPhone then just pop pop  

one of these edges up and then stick this in  you wanna you don't want to destroy the case  

because if something were to happen to this  drive during the two-year warranty period you  

want to be able to still put it back in to the  case and send it back full warranty without you  

know making an obvious that you shut it  so so just get that first piece in there

find that I find the tab once you  release the tab you just hold them  

there and get them good the other  sign this thing slides right off

it's important to use these plastic tools because  you don't so where you don't squirt it up and wash  

it's bad either so yeah once pop that slide  this act like this careful not to drop this  

thing these fries are just like any of the hard  drive day breaking so got this out so it's your  

regular WD white label as they call them now  they've they've put just white labels on them  

but the only way you're gonna find out what it  is if you look at the model numbers listed here  

and try and do your research online with what  other people have been finding I've got both of  

them taken apart as you can tell they were pretty  easy to come off all these cases do they've got  

two two little clips on each each side that you  get the way Jen you pop that open and the rest of  

it just slides off so that makes it really easy  compared to some of the older WDS and Seagate's  

that I've shucked first thing I noticed with  both of these is that they this one was made  

in the 18th in November this one was made on the  11th of November so they probably came from the  

same factory just about a week apart you know the  serial numbers I did a little research on these  

serial numbers and what I found for the last year  or two is you know you could look at that number  

the WD 8 0e m AZ and then you also look at that  number and that kind of tells you everybody that  

I've seen look this up these are suggest these  are Reds there's some people have posted photos  

of Reds side by side with these they've got the  same the same markings kind of case out here so  

that suggests they're also red the one thing that  I have been reading that might suggest these are  

HGS teaser that there's this number right here  that someone said that's they find on the HGST  

site and then also there's an RN number right  here that says us 7s al zero a zero that might  

suggest that this is also off of the SGH st but  everything else physically that i researched and  

looked at suggests that these are Reds so WD  red so one other way you could run you could  

take these out and run them on a some utilities  plug them up to your Windows machine or unit or  

Linux machine and run some utilities to see what  data you could extract from them and then what  

firmware they're running but I'm not gonna do  that I'm gonna probably just take these apart  

and put them in my network attached storage and  just end up using them I pretty confident they're  

Reds so nothing I've seen on the Internet has  suggested otherwise all right here's the back  

side of the drive it do you guys want to take  a look at it I didn't really see anybody post  

the backsides of their Reds but I'm assuming they  they're probably the same so the next thing we're  

gonna do is take this thing out of the case so  one things you want to do is just remove all  

these little fiber optic things for the indicator  lights for this drive it's the easiest way to do  

it is you could leave this board on here for  now but you'll see the the rubber cushions  

all around just kind of push them through just  kind of push the whole drive through the rubber  

careful not to break some of these these tabs  they're holding the rubber in but uh you just  

pop it kind cuz that case is pretty flimsy so  just get the that over there slide it right out

all right out and then after that just unscrew  the you've got two screws the one right here  

holding the USB bracket on unscrew that and then  the bottom piece holding the board on right here  

pop that right out and the rest of this thinker  you just I just wiggle this right out pops right  

out so that's how it is pretty easy to shut these  drives so if you guys like what you saw leave any  

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