{"id":824,"date":"2019-03-15T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/?p=824"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T20:02:37","slug":"wd-8tb-hard-drive-shucking-for-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wd-8tb-hard-drive-shucking-for-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"WD 8TB Hard Drive Shucking For NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

There are more details in this reddit post<\/a> about the drives and how to shuck them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Start by inserting plastic cards into these places and pry them out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Wiggle out the drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Two screws hold the PCB board on the drive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Slide out the connector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Done, now to mount into the Synology drive mount.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Insert and then configure in Synology.
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Disk 3 shows up in Synology Storage Manager.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Add the disk, and it’ll take some time to wipe and initialize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a few hours the volume is expanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading WD 8TB Hard Drive Shucking For NAS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunapi386.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}