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

nospam <[email protected]> Thu, 06 Apr 2023 09:51:32 -0400
Newsgroups alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <060420230951328201%[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Ant
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > > 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.
> 
> Well, it is broken/dead then it might be worth to open to destroy its 
> disk platter datas. :P

you said it was encrypted.