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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's called shucking and it happens a lot especially in the home server home lab community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

learn something new every day :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It’s a bummer that hard drives are priced this way. It’s been common for a few decades now.

[–] lambda 4 points 6 months ago

The best ones for this are the ones from Best Buy. Easystore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't you think it's wild that a hard drive, which is just chilling inside its case, suddenly has its innards spilled out using a screwdriver, and dumped into a 24/7 NAS with other hard disks.

A bit inhumane if you ask me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's totally inhumane but also no living thing was harmed, so - all good.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Just that those ext disk aren’t built for 24/7 usage. They will die faster and generate bigger costs over time 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

My oldest ones have been running 24/7 since 2018 and tons of people have been doing the same. Where's your data to suggest that these drives fail faster than any other?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If you look around and are informed then you can easily purchase drives that are designed for Nas use. I shucked three eight terabyte Western digital external hard drives and they were all WD reds, but because of the deal they were running they were $60 a piece cheaper inside of the shell than they were outside of the shell.