Digital Spaceport | How To Shuck A Seagate Usb Hard Drive - The Easy Way! @DigitalSpaceport | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 55 minutes ago.
I had a shucked Seagate USB Hard Drive bite the dust and the RMA turned into an issue. Farming Chia is not an intensive hard drive workload, but if you buy them in batches, failures will happen. Watch before you shuck! I cover the steps to cleanly shuck a Seagate Expansion Desktop hard drive safely and what parts you MUST store in order to case you need to RMA.
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Chapters
0:00 How to shuck a Seagate Expansion USB drive
0:15 Parts you need to keep in case of RMA
1:00 Identify the cover of the USB enclosure to remove
1:45 Using a knife to start the prying
2:50 Slide blade into groove above USB and power ports
3:20 Using a card to protect the enclosure from scuffs
5:45 Peel the cover off
6:40 Pull the drive out
8:00 The serial numbers don't match so you must keep all the parts in case you need an RMA

Shucking Tutorial works on models:
STEB4000100
STEB6000403
STEB8000100
STEB10000400
STEB12000400
STEB14000400

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