I picked up a few of Seagate Backup Plus 4tb drives at Walmart for an incredible price the other day. My plan is to replace the 2tb drives in my fileserver so I needed to remove the case. I first did some testing to make sure it wasn’t DOA before I started to take it apart.
It turned out to be very easy — the cover is held on with just a few clips that are easy to undo. I managed to get it out with no damage at all. The case is still fully usable if I choose in the future.
What is the drive inside? Its Seagates standard ST4000DM000 consumer desktop drive.
Check out the images below for instructions on how to remove the drive.
Specs
- Capacity: 4TB
- 4TB (ST4000DM000)
- 8 heads, 4 disks
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Spindle: 5,900 RPM
- Cache: 64MB
- Throughput Max: 180/MBs
- Average Data Rate: 146MB/s
- Average Latency: 5.16ms
- Power
- Typical Idle Operating 5W
- Average Operating 7.5W
- Warranty: 2 years
Review: http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_desktop_hdd15_review_st4000dm000
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