WD 8TB Hard Drive Shucking For NAS

The Western Digital (WD) Easystore 8TB is an external hard drive sold exclusively by Best Buy. It’s highly sought after because it contains a WD Red or unlabelled WD White 8TB drive, which can be “shucked” and used in a home server.

Typically you can get 8TB for $140+tax when on sale, whereas a regular WD 8TB NAS drive costs around $260+tax.

There are more details in this reddit post about the drives and how to shuck them.

Start by inserting plastic cards into these places and pry them out.

Wiggle out the drive.

Two screws hold the PCB board on the drive.

Slide out the connector

Done, now to mount into the Synology drive mount.

Insert and then configure in Synology.
Disk 3 shows up in Synology Storage Manager.
Add the disk, and it’ll take some time to wipe and initialize.

After a few hours the volume is expanded.

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