How to Shuck a 12 TB Western Digital Elements External Hard Drive in About 2 Minutes
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- In this video, I show you how to shuck the internal SATA hard drive from a WD External 12 TB Elements in real-time, with the purpose of removing the internal disk from its enclosure in a non-destructive way. By doing so, you can use it as an internal HDD in your PC, workstation, server or NAS device, and re-use the empty case in the future. We'll also look at the label to find out the Western Digital model number of the disk, and discuss the possibility of requiring the 3.3V pin fix.
00:00 What I Plan to Do
00:52 The Tools You'll Need to Shuck
01:08 Lights... Camera... Action!
03:44 A Note about the 3.3V Pin Power Issue
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If you don’t work in radio or broadcasting already, you should. Great voice and presentation.
Many thanks 🙏. I don't, but you have me seriously doubting my current career choice.
cadence is very important and you have great rhythm
@@accessrandom Sounds similar to the narration on the tv show "How it's made".
Sorta like this! ua-cam.com/video/9D08QDTouow/v-deo.html
Great video by the way, just shucked this same elements drive and received a WD120EDAZ drive. Great deal for 229$ CAD! :)
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@@derekb1887 Many thanks 🙏
Thanks for continue making this videos, love your voice and presentation, hope to see more on other subjects.
Many thanks for the vote of confidence - I will certainly continue to make videos 👍
Just did this on a new 18TB WD Elements drive. Worked perfectly! Outstanding video!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏.
I have 3 x 18tb Elements drives i would like to shuck. would the 3rd power pin issue happen with these bigger Elements drives as i dont want to waste them. tia
Thanks, this is the first time I've shucked a drive!
You're welcome. Hope everything went well!
@@accessrandom It did, I followed your instructions and it took me like 5 minutes 😀
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Bought a bunch of these in 18TB capacity. Thanks for this, really made me feel comfortable shucking my first drive. These cases are so cheap. Out of the 8 drives I got, I had one drive where one of the clips was broken out of the box!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏. Prices have finally come down so I'm seeing a lot of interest in these lately.
great video ! i shucked an 18tb WD Elements and put it into a 5 bay enclosure and it didn't miss a heartbeat and no power pin issue. I have 2 more to do so hopefully they will go as well as the 1st one did. thanks for the video 👌
That was awesome. nice to see I can use those external HDs as internal ones with a little finessing.
Thank you for the feedback 👍
Thanks a lot, very detailed and it was very easy to reproduce. I had a 12 tb white just as yours, and it dit power straight away without the 3.3 v issue.
You're welcome, and thank you for the feedback 👍.
Note that there are WD white-label drives with and without the pin 3 issue. Easy enough to tell, as you said, because the drive just won't spin up in some environments. Thanks for helping to keep the world informed!!!!
Awesome, many thanks!
Got this on sale with 30% off so this was a awesome thing I could do, saved me a decent compared to just buying a normal 12tb hdd which cost $400+ aud.
Good deal 👍 - I've done this on 16 hard drives so far and it has saved me a bundle...
now that was a helpful video, thanks for that! I really like the recommendation at the end to make sure that you check those 3.3v pins. Honestly I would recommend doing that if your intention is to use it internally. In my experience it has loads of incompatibility issues if you don't. Cheers!
You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback 🙏.
Loved your previous videos on shucking; they helped a lot in getting the courage and expertise on how to do them myself. The only thing I don't do is using an expired gift card to pry open the back. In my experience just gently pulling is enough to separate the cases.
Thank you, and good point. Even at the 2:10 mark, you can see there was already a small gap, so I didn't really need a card to twist them apart, but I thought I'd keep it in just in case...
Thanks to you, I can shuck that drive in less than a minute! Thanks much!
Thanks a lot for this video, worked great!
You're welcome, and thank you 🙏
These drives are great in price/performance. Another good video you may want to cover is testing these drives before taking them apart, it's not exactly necessary but it doesn't hurt to at least give the drive a hard time before stripping it of its warranty by shucking. Out of 8x 8tb's I had one with some issues (I forget exactly what outside of some bad sectors) and was able to just toss it back into the box and back to a retail store for a swap. Mostly just some smartctl, badblocks and f3write runs (might be able to find some alternatives) but it at least can save some time putting it back together or possibly issues with returning a reconstructed one.
Excellent point, thanks. Then you don't have to deal with warranty issues with the manufacturer because it's in the window of return/exchange with the retailer.
@@accessrandom A good point to make in that planned video: compare the performance in original form, and inside the PC. Lets see is there a bottleneck in the additional electronics/USB interface, or the HDD performance is way below the connectors'...
@@ledgeri Thanks for the great suggestions. 👍🙏
These ones really were the easiest to shuck. So easy it might honestly be worth a 5-10 dollar difference between this and some of the others.
Of course id love it if we could just get the drives without the environmental waste of the usb enclosure though.
I agree - these are easier to shuck than even the Easystores since the case becomes loose as soon as you wedge them apart with the picks/cards/spudgers.
@@accessrandom Just bought my fourth Elements drive (12Tb) which was with the £50 off promotion on Amazon. £185 not too shabby a price. Had to revisit this video to remind me what to do. Thanks again.
Best voice for tutorial
Thank you 👍
thanks for this, and nice watch btw
thanks so much.
It’s crazy the savings I’ve made.. bought 15 of these drives now all between 12-18tbs and saved a lot of cash.. and they’re almost all helium 7200rpm drives.
you could do an extended hdd test over night and let the heat stretch/loosen the four corners and components for an easier shuck.
Thanks for the tip 👍🙏
I really love your content... make Data Recovery videos, please...
Thanks so much 🙏. I will certainly consider it - are you looking for basic file recovery? Or maybe how to recover partitions, or more?
@@accessrandom Actually I was after PC-3000, MRT ... I mean, firmware level recovery... that might be amazing.
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Congratulations on that.
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@@cocobongo268 Ah, I see. That topic is a little beyond my knowledge and experience, but I'm willing to learn 😀
@@accessrandom As all we do... being humble is the right thing always.
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Keep going on, thanks for reading my feedback.
So 2:13 is that a challenge !! :P "Shuck" that's a new word for my -vokabilary- -vocabilhairy- shucks you know what I mean ..
I managed to do it in less time without the guitar pics, just wedged the old credit card into the two wedges (one at a time) and applied a little bit of force and it came right out.
Hello, great video. Is this a good disk which is inside? I want to use it as a backup for my Synology NAS drive :)
Thank you. Yes, the 12 TB drives are CMR drives so they are very good. You may get either a helium or air-filled drive - the helium ones will run cooler.
Thanks for the tutorial. Is it possible to use that pcb to boot up some other hard drive? Like a portable hard drive dock.
You can use the adapter (and enclosure) to host a different hard drive, but I don't think I've seen anyone use it as an open dock before.
Champion! Thanks!
If the drive has data written to it before shucking, can it be accessed and used as normal when connecting internally, or must the drive be re-formatted?
Awesome presentation, and great voice!... Q. Should a PC be able to read the files on an shucked WD drive, or does it need to be formatted to use it? In my case the unshucked WD drive has connection problems, so though this might work.
The chip doesn't encrypt it, I was able to read the data immediately after connecting it internally
Is this only suitable for new/empty drives ? Can it be used to transfer existing data ?
If the drive already has data on it, can I just take it out of the enclosure, drop it in my machine and read it?
Just curiosity, for those who use these drives in computer/nas, how noisy and reliable these are?
Don't want to get drive which is much noisier than my current 4TB Blues. Plus on reliability, there are quite some reviews on amazon for example, that these can have issues within few months.
I can't speak for the current batch that I bought, but the White label 8 TB Easystores from 3 years ago are running strong (24/7). I have had two Seagate 5 TB Archive drives that I've RMA'd during that same time period.
Considering Seagate Hard Drives shucked seem to be Made In China and the Western Digital shucked is made in Thailand - I know what I'll be buying!
Not to mention most of those Seagate external hdd models are crappy SMR, I know what I'll be buying!
@@turtlemaster9000 All disk larger than 10tb are SMR.
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Thank you - didn't think anyone would notice :)
@@accessrandom haha at least you got your hands on one. Used market prices are quite vulgar these days
ok, shucked it, did the 3.3v pin trick. BUT, now I want to put it back as external. Ive removed the insulation from the 3.3v pin but it wont spin. What is the default formatting for the drive for it to work again?
I believe the original format is NTFS. You should be able to format it as an internal, then place it in the enclosure (as there is no hardware encryption on the SATA/USB adapter). However, if it's not spinning at all, there could be a problem with that adapter.
Beware - my 10 TB Elements just popped out with 2 center screw holes missing. Cannot mount it into my case, because of this. Going to be tough to find an adapter. Or I guess I need to buy a Fractal case, since they make such things. :(
It's also the heaviest drive I've ever held in my hands. Bought in 2021 Fall from Amazon, model # WD101EDBZ.
Anyone have a solution?
Unfortunately, the larger Western Digitals remove the center screw hole because the platters are supposedly larger (I show the missing hole in one of my other videos: ua-cam.com/video/pMudTWoMvsY/v-deo.html). Does your case have plastic rails that you attach to the disk, or can you mount them without rails? If the latter, you should be able to mount the disk using two screws on each side.
wait how do i fix the no spin up?
You can follow the procedure in one of my other videos here: ua-cam.com/video/9W3-uOl4ruc/v-deo.html
Do a video on reassembly please.
strange that this is cheaper than getting a normal hdd.
The externals have been cheaper than internals historically; unfortunately, the prices of both have been climbing lately :(
@@accessrandom yes, and I thought that it was going to drop since crypto mining was supposed to become illegal in china. have also been hoping for a consumer version of a tape drive, however right now it seems like those won't come back to the general public.