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[question] Can I use the drive inside my WD My Book in a NAS? (self.hardware)

submitted 1 year ago by thethirdobject to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone!

As a photographer without a lot of money, my girlfriend used external drives to backup her files. A few years ago, she was able to upgrade to two 8tb WD My Book: one that she uses on a day to day basis, the other as an exact copy (thank's SuperDuper!).

But we now want to upgrade to a NAS. Since we will need a lots of storage (I was thinking four 8tb drives, so that we can have a few tb each with redundancy), I was wondering if I could use the drives inside the My Book in our NAS?

I could just open it, but I don't want to ruin her hd before we buy our NAS, and I can't find any reliable info about what's inside. I'm sure there are some reliability issue in using used hd in a NAS, I'm just curious.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

you can, yes. it's called hard drive shucking and is extremely common.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes. You can even use it outside, connected to the NAS via USB. 😁

Running a 4x8TB array over USB 3.0.