Reliable External HD

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  • moldero0

    the other day i just took apart 2 separate wd 1tb's and just put the sata's directly into my mac pro in the extra blank bays, externals r a pain, wish i had more empty bays, i have 7 more drives.

    • love it apple users take control; right On!plash
    • i looked at my WDs but didnt see any access on the molded plastic? did u jsut break the plastic? i was thinkign of addign them to my internal in a possible raiddeathboy
    • addign them to my internal and runnign a raid setupdeathboy
    • i took apart wd's, i found a vid on youtube for a tutorial, basically get a screw driver, the cases pop apartmoldero
    • i started from the top, the wd's were essential 1tb's, i have a 4 tb but that one comes apart differentlymoldero
    • didn't take that one apart yet.moldero
    • loljadrian_uk
    • had to research like hell to make sure they were satas, couldnt find anything even on wd's site, that youtubemoldero
    • tut helped because i could see the drive once it was outmoldero
    • what was cool is i didnt even have to reformat the drives or anything. easy as shit.moldero

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