Save Money on HDD Purchases - WD My Book Shuck | PäksTech
Getting storage for your home server can get quite expensive when you want to store terabytes of data. Recently, I heard about a way to have significant savings in storage costs.
It might come as a surprise to you but external USB hard drives are actually cheaper per terabyte than similar internal drives! This has led people to obtain external drives just to open the enclosures to get the drives from inside. In the above video I will show how to open the WD My Book 8TB drive to get the HDD out.
The funny thing is that these large drives are actually the same drives that you’d normally buy for a NAS or server storage because they don’t make the consumer grade drives in larger capacities (as of Jan 2020). Therefore it is important that you buy drives of 8TB or more if you’re interested in shucking.
Earlier you could’ve gotten actual WD Red NAS drives from some external drive models but after people started opening them they changed them to “white label” drives which don’t have similar branding. Some WD external drive models still contain these white label Red drives which are basically the same but with a white sticker instead of a red one.
