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Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use the disks for his own server. Was therefore wondering if you peeps have ever done this and if there any downsides to it at all?

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[–] MstrDialUp@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yup. And if you want to look up more info on how to do it correctly, look up hard drive shucking.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did once. Well, more along the lines of "what did i buy this thing for, can use the HDD as is". The HDD had additional contact points at the bottom. Don't remember if they worked as is and what i did with them.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes and i got "scammed" - western digital in order to save $3 included the USB port directly on the drive motherboard instead of the usual sata+usb like anyone else was doing

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 6 months ago

Just why don't they omit the casing inside the case too?