Well some of you may remember my thread a week ago asking if it was possible to tear apart an external drive to make it internal. After talking to a few of the members here I decided it was worth a shot, and order an external 3tb seagate drive for $114 on sale. It arrived earlier today and after verifying it was in working order, I immediately went to work breaking it...
- the drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178117
Before (Click to show)
There are no screws, so I resorted to a butter knife and guitar pick to pop the tabs
Without the shell (Click to show)
Had a PCB that I couldn't figure out how to remove, then I realized I was just being stupid and removed the rubber stoppers on the side...
Naked Drive (Click to show)
And there you have it, nothing fancy but that is the drive that is inside these 3tb external seagate drives. Haven't had a chance to run any real tests on it but its working fine so far and I have no problems with it as a backup drive. Im off to work but I'll play around with it some more when I get home tonight and report back.
btw this isn't meant to be a tut or anything, just figured someone else out there may be curious as to what drives are inside these things and if it was doable. Can confirm it was super easy, and I am pretty sure this drive alone has a longer warranty then the external drive lol
edit - for anyone reading this, after partitioning the drive and internalizing it these are the HDTune results.
Sequential Read on 500GB - 190 - 204Mb/s
Access Time on 500GB - 13.3ms
Edited by xRehab - 7/9/12 at 1:27pm
- the drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178117
Before (Click to show)
There are no screws, so I resorted to a butter knife and guitar pick to pop the tabs
Without the shell (Click to show)
Had a PCB that I couldn't figure out how to remove, then I realized I was just being stupid and removed the rubber stoppers on the side...
Naked Drive (Click to show)
And there you have it, nothing fancy but that is the drive that is inside these 3tb external seagate drives. Haven't had a chance to run any real tests on it but its working fine so far and I have no problems with it as a backup drive. Im off to work but I'll play around with it some more when I get home tonight and report back.
btw this isn't meant to be a tut or anything, just figured someone else out there may be curious as to what drives are inside these things and if it was doable. Can confirm it was super easy, and I am pretty sure this drive alone has a longer warranty then the external drive lol
edit - for anyone reading this, after partitioning the drive and internalizing it these are the HDTune results.
Sequential Read on 500GB - 190 - 204Mb/s
Access Time on 500GB - 13.3ms
Edited by xRehab - 7/9/12 at 1:27pm
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The first 300GB is good and fast, so that's fine for OS/Apps/Games - but the rest is too high... way higher than most 5400RPM drives. Good for storage, but not so great for other stuff.
(I suggest this because if access times get too high, some games or engines will fail to load important models/textures/files before they are needed, which can cause stutters. Keeping all the data close together towards the edge should help prevent that.)
