![]() ![]() 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. No such problems on a Mac (even if Time Machine is running using a partition on the drive).The computer serving as a NAS was in need of another hard drive. However, I find it almost impossible to eject the drives under Windows 10-it is always "in use" (either because of Dashboard, or Windows Backup, or Norton Utility and I have to shutdown the machine to remove it. I had the 2TBs for over a year an d they perform well. I also have the 4TB Backup Hub and it is very bulky in comparison (its advantage is it has its own power and can connect other drives to it). ![]() Please note that there are many Seagate 4TB models, and not everyone is a slim one (the box DOES NOT say it is slim, but it is if you have the Model STDR40000100. The 4TB has the same footprint as the 2TB, only a bit thicker. Now I can simply take the drive on a trip and boot up any iMAC. It is certainly not the fastest drive but good enough for my day-to-day archiving purpose as well as running it as a boot disk on USB (even USB 2.0 on a 2009 iMAC (whose internal HD died, and buried inside since I don't want to open the iMAC). The Backup Plus Slim series of HD are excellent (I have two 2TB and 1 4TB) and affordable. ![]()
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