I have been shucking Seagate ever since WD and toshiba switched to soldered usb 3.0 port. I liked WDs in the past and seagate was bad but Seagate has come a long way in terms of quality from then and now they are reliable. Hard to find sata interface drives for cheap from WD now a days
This guy speaks very good English and is pretty easy to understand... Just thought I'd make that known... Also, I have a WD My Passport, with those integrated USB ports this guy mentioned, so can confirm that it's a thing... Probably better to use a 3.5 drive I guess, to avoid that unless it's easy in the future to find easily shucked "standard" 2.5 drives... One thing to note, is the fact that it IS possible to use them internally, on a system, it's just a big hassle because you NEED a compatible USB cable and a free internal or external USB port
If you want to get some internal 2,5 SATA Drives from other manufacturers like WD and Toshiba look at the Intenso 2,5 inch models ... e.g. the Intenso Memory Case 4TB (2,5). Fun fact: Removing that Sata Connector costs manufacturers more money that they make from the sales, so they (in this case Intenso) just put regular SATA-HDDs inside nowadays with the cheapest USB-to-SATA Bridge they can find (which will curropt the drives over time most likely)... This is especially true for resellers of those drives.
Also on a second thought, I shuck the Seagates out of the cheap 3.0 to sata adaptor that they use in these drives. The Seagate ones are worst quality I have seen in the industry. I have shucked drives from Lenovo and they got the best 3.0 to sata adaptor. Seagate drives go bad if we use their internal adaptors. They have to put good quality ones cause those adaptor are the ones killing the drives early I am sure.
Is there a 3tb or 4tb 2.5 inch internal hard drive for laptop or 2.5 external hard drive that would fit in a laptop this is a 2.5 inch but it looks a little bit big to fit in a laptop
To be perfectly clear, if it's a 2.5 inch hard drive, it will most likely adhere to the 2.5 inch drive standard, and even the USB based variants do too from my experience, although WHY anyone would actually want to have a USB based drive inside a PC is beyond me... Presumably, that's why they started integrating USB 3.0 plugs, is to deter people from doing that
@@volepadni since I can only guess at which part of my comment you're referring to, I'll just say this... Yes external drives are cheap, when compared to internal 2.5" drives, but I definitely wouldn't want a "USB micro 3.0" cable, hanging around the inside of my PC, and that's what a drive I have has... The USB micro 3.0 port on it isn't a SATA converter though, it's literally soldered directly to hard drive, which is why I mentioned them. It wouldn't look good, to have a cable hanging around the inside of a PC that is a USB cable, hooked up to a internal hard drive... Again, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make by saying that external drives are cheap, but if it had anything to do with price or you know whatever now you know my thoughts on the issue, and the same goes for if you were wondering something about USB based drives...
I know this video is old, but shucking 2.5" drives make no sense. All those drives use SMR as the storage technology, which leads to big problems (perfomance-wise and other kind) when the drive is used in a NAS or other advanced scenarios. This was true when this video was made, too. So no, the only shucking that makes sense is with 3.5" drives, and only with sizes 10TB or more, where SMR is not used (for now, at least).
Had no clue what Shucking means and I've been doing it for 30 years starting with SCSI externals🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and you don't want WD drives, they are unreliable dog shit, Seagate is the way to go anyway. This is how I do my backups, I use Diskwizard to clone my main drive to the USB, then in the event I need to use it, I can take the backup drive out, install it in the PC, boot up and use the PCB/USB connector to clone the backup drive to a new SSD vis USB3 so no need for boot drives and other hardware🤙🤙🤙🤙
I have been shucking Seagate ever since WD and toshiba switched to soldered usb 3.0 port. I liked WDs in the past and seagate was bad but Seagate has come a long way in terms of quality from then and now they are reliable. Hard to find sata interface drives for cheap from WD now a days
This guy speaks very good English and is pretty easy to understand... Just thought I'd make that known...
Also, I have a WD My Passport, with those integrated USB ports this guy mentioned, so can confirm that it's a thing... Probably better to use a 3.5 drive I guess, to avoid that unless it's easy in the future to find easily shucked "standard" 2.5 drives...
One thing to note, is the fact that it IS possible to use them internally, on a system, it's just a big hassle because you NEED a compatible USB cable and a free internal or external USB port
Excellent! Now, make a video on - How to use a shucked case for an old 2.5 HDD. Thanks. Good job.
Great video, I also have a 5tb from Costco. I plan to disassemble and install in my Intel NUC.
If you want to get some internal 2,5 SATA Drives from other manufacturers like WD and Toshiba look at the Intenso 2,5 inch models ... e.g. the Intenso Memory Case 4TB (2,5).
Fun fact: Removing that Sata Connector costs manufacturers more money that they make from the sales, so they (in this case Intenso) just put regular SATA-HDDs inside nowadays with the cheapest USB-to-SATA Bridge they can find (which will curropt the drives over time most likely)...
This is especially true for resellers of those drives.
Hello, do you know which WD 2.5inch drives can be shucked? (which will have SATA port)?
nice one, thanks.👍
Also on a second thought, I shuck the Seagates out of the cheap 3.0 to sata adaptor that they use in these drives. The Seagate ones are worst quality I have seen in the industry. I have shucked drives from Lenovo and they got the best 3.0 to sata adaptor. Seagate drives go bad if we use their internal adaptors. They have to put good quality ones cause those adaptor are the ones killing the drives early I am sure.
Then you didnt try Intenso yet! If you think it can't get lower then look at that one ...
thanks😃
Is there a 3tb or 4tb 2.5 inch internal hard drive for laptop or 2.5 external hard drive that would fit in a laptop this is a 2.5 inch but it looks a little bit big to fit in a laptop
To be perfectly clear, if it's a 2.5 inch hard drive, it will most likely adhere to the 2.5 inch drive standard, and even the USB based variants do too from my experience, although WHY anyone would actually want to have a USB based drive inside a PC is beyond me... Presumably, that's why they started integrating USB 3.0 plugs, is to deter people from doing that
@@northwiebesick7136 coz external drives are cheap😅
@@volepadni since I can only guess at which part of my comment you're referring to, I'll just say this... Yes external drives are cheap, when compared to internal 2.5" drives, but I definitely wouldn't want a "USB micro 3.0" cable, hanging around the inside of my PC, and that's what a drive I have has... The USB micro 3.0 port on it isn't a SATA converter though, it's literally soldered directly to hard drive, which is why I mentioned them. It wouldn't look good, to have a cable hanging around the inside of a PC that is a USB cable, hooked up to a internal hard drive...
Again, I'm not sure what point you are trying to make by saying that external drives are cheap, but if it had anything to do with price or you know whatever now you know my thoughts on the issue, and the same goes for if you were wondering something about USB based drives...
@@northwiebesick7136 have you shucked one of seagate external drives? it has SATA port inside....
I know this video is old, but shucking 2.5" drives make no sense. All those drives use SMR as the storage technology, which leads to big problems (perfomance-wise and other kind) when the drive is used in a NAS or other advanced scenarios. This was true when this video was made, too. So no, the only shucking that makes sense is with 3.5" drives, and only with sizes 10TB or more, where SMR is not used (for now, at least).
Had no clue what Shucking means and I've been doing it for 30 years starting with SCSI externals🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and you don't want WD drives, they are unreliable dog shit, Seagate is the way to go anyway.
This is how I do my backups, I use Diskwizard to clone my main drive to the USB, then in the event I need to use it, I can take the backup drive out, install it in the PC, boot up and use the PCB/USB connector to clone the backup drive to a new SSD vis USB3 so no need for boot drives and other hardware🤙🤙🤙🤙
Glad to see someone agrees how bad wd is