Re: Dead external Seagate 5 TB portable HDD from 2020 (ordered at that year IIRC)?

nospam <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 23:26:24 -0400
Newsgroups alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <050420232326249496%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Ant
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > I would attempt to remove the drive from its enclosure so that I could
> > test the drive by itself, just on the possibility that the problem lies
> > with the enclosure rather than the drive.
> 
> What's the best way to open it? I see no screws. :(

it's held together with clips, but it's not worth it, and depending on
the drive, you might not find a separate bridge board. some drives have
a native usb connector on the drive itself.