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The hard drive industry is such a weirdly complex marketplace. For example, there's people dedicated to "shucking" the external hard drives for the purpose of e
by uptown 6y ago
The hard drive industry is such a weirdly complex marketplace. For example, there's people dedicated to "shucking" the external hard drives for the purpose of extracting the drives inside for use in a NAS or wherever, which would normally sell for higher than those with the external enclosure included, then chronicling the types and attributes of the drives they've found. The https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ subreddit is a strange place.
- agumonkey 6y agoNot sure if this will go on, often enough, USB hdd have dedicated controllers with direct usb bridge, you can't use it as sata unless full mod.
- dawnerd 6y agoNot the mybooks which is what people are shucking. I have about 20 in my nas and they’re going strong. For ~$120/8TB hard to go wrong when they’re essentially red drives inside (they’ve switched to white label drives with the same-ish specs). The controller card inside of the enclosure is just a simple usb and power converter.
- ValentineC 6y ago> USB hdd have dedicated controllers with direct usb bridge In my (limited) experience, it's mostly the WD portables that have a direct USB connector. It's been going on for many years — I have a WD Passport with USB 2.0 that I've unsuccessfully tried to shuck. The portable Seagate Backup drives are shuckable, but some of them are SMR.
- jnwatson 6y agoI've done this and didn't even realize it was a thing.
- crtasm 6y agoI don't think anyone's dedicated to shucking in itself, they just want to save money and help others do the same by sharing information.