![]() Pictures first – click for a larger image.ĭisassembly is fairly straightforward, though less easy than on the Backup Plus. So they won’t fit in a laptop or other standard sized 2.5″ bays. At the very least it’ll be a bit harder to claim a warranty when the thing’s clearly been disassembled. Some (Western Digital especially) don’t have an SATA connector on the internal drive. Now before someone starts buying up portable external drives like a madman, I should warn you that: In our case, “de-casing” the portable hard drive so we can use the internal 2.5″ drive as a standard hard drive. Turns out it is!īefore going further, since “shucking” isn’t an overly popular term, it essentially means “de-shelling”. ![]() While my previous “Backup Plus” Seagate 4TB variant had proven shuckable in the past, I wasn’t positive if the “Expansion Portable” variant that happened to be on sale (the Seagate STEA4000400) could be shucked or not. The computer serving as a NAS was in need of another hard drive.
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