Choosing the Right USB Drive to Shuck – A Beginners Guide + Master List of Drives

A Guide to Buying the Right USB Drive for Shucking Right – First Time

If you are looking at making a significant saving on larger capacity HDDs or picking up much faster NVMe SSDs for a bargain price, then shucking will likely be one of the first methods that you have considered. For the uninitiated, shucking drives is the process of purchasing an external drive (eg a USB or Thunderbolt external storage drive in a sealed enclosure), then opening it up in efforts to get the drive inside – which can often work out cheaper than buying the bare internal drive on it’s own. As mentioned in THIS ARTICLE earlier this month, the reasons an external drive can often be cheaper can range from the drive inside being white labelled versions of a consumer drive, or the drive being allocated in bulk at production therefore removing it from the buy/sell/currency variables of bare drives or even simply that your USB 3.2 external drive is bottlenecking the real performance of the drive inside. For whatever the reason, HDD and SSD Shucking still continues to be a desirable practice with cost-aware buyers online. But there is one little problem – that the brands VERY RARELY say which HDD or SSD they choose to use in their external drives. Therefore choosing the right external drive for shucking can have an element of luck and/or risk involved. So, in today’s article, I want to talk you through a bunch of ways to identify the HDD/SSD inside an external drive without opening it, as well as highlight the risks you need to be aware of and finally shock my research after searching the internet for information to consolidate the drives inside many, many external drive enclosures from Seagate, WD and Toshiba. This is an ongoing process and one that is never going to be foolproof – but better something than nothing, right? Let’s begin.

Shucking HDDs and SSDs – Buyer Beware!

It is INCREDIBLY important that you know the risks when considering external drive shucking! Despite the savings that are possible compared with purchasing bare internal HDDs and SSDs, the catch is that it has never really been a 100% foolproof system of buying cheap drives. So, before you open a single browser tab and visit your local eShop, make sure you remember the following:

• Some External Drives use Partially/Fully attached Bridging boards on the internal HDD/SSD media inside, which (at best) will require additional removal or (at worst) make the internal drive completely unusual via a traditional SATA connection (See example HERE – will open in new tab)
• The HDD or SSD inside an external drive is always subject to change by the manufacturer at any time. So, there is no real guarantee that a HDD/SSD used in an enclosure today will be the same drive in use in a later revision
• Shucking an HDD/SSD from a store-bought external drive case will, in most cases, completely invalidate your warranty. Even if you are able to reintroduce the drive back into the casing without harm, there might still be unhidden seals that you have void’ed, or its connection via an internal interface such as SATA being registered on the drive’s internal logs.

If you are in any further doubt, I strongly recommend that you watch my video on the three reasons that Shucking hard drives is a GOOD thing (and three reasons it is NOT), as it will ensure you have the full factors and hurdles that you may encounter at your disposal before you spend a single penny! If you are still happy to proceed, let’s go!

A List of Which HDD/SSD is inside Which External Drive from WD and Seagate

Below is a list of external Drives and the hard drive or SSD that have been recognized online inside them. This list comprises a tonne of research from April 2023 and includes lots of current-gen and old-gen external drives from WD, Seagate and Toshiba online. Do keep in mind that even the older drives are still available to buy on the likes of eBay and in Amazon’s seller directories. In some case (especially in the case off 2.5″ drives, 3TB and 5TB drives) the drive inside is impossible to by conventionally as a bare drive in 2023 onwards. Additionally, it is worth keeping in mind that although the HDD in many of these external drives have the same model ID as their bare drive equivalent, they may arrive as ‘white label’ drives – which is when the brand does not place the usual colourful/consumer friendly livery on the drive casing. This also massively identifies the drive as a ‘shucked drive’ and reduces the likely chances of a warranty even closer to 0%. 

IMPORTANT – The following list is the result of hours or online research and cross-referencing on 14-4-23. I will continue to update this list periodically as further information and identifiers arise(as well as edit/amend as needed when contacted about errors). If I am unaware of an HDD/SSD inside an enclosure but it is in an existing range, I will either leave the field blank or add ‘N/A’. Last thing, please, PLEASE remember that just because an HDD/SSD is in the list below, it might well still feature a bridging board in place between the on-drive interface and the external interface (again, see here). So, I recommend that you scroll down further in this article to the four ways to identify the HDD/SSD inside an external drive enclosure without opening the drive up!

Seagate USB External HDDs and SSDs and the Drive Inside:

Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company. It was incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology and commenced business in 1979.[2] Since 2010, the company has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Fremont, California, United States. Seagate developed the first 5.25-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the 5-megabyte ST-506, in 1980. They were a major supplier in the microcomputer market during the 1980s, especially after the introduction of the IBM XT in 1983. Much of their growth has come through their acquisition of competitors. In 1989, Seagate acquired Control Data Corporation’s Imprimis division, the makers of CDC’s HDD products. Seagate acquired Conner Peripherals in 1996, Maxtor in 2006, and Samsung’s HDD business in 2011. Today, Seagate, along with its competitor Western Digital, dominates the HDD market.

External Drive Name/Series	Model ID	Capacity	Price (14/4/23)	HDD/SSD Inside	Check on Amazon
Seagate Portable 1TB	STGX1000400	1TB	$39	ST1000LM035	HERE
Seagate Portable 2TB	STGX2000400	2TB	$67	ST2000LM007	HERE
Seagate Portable 4TB	STGX4000400	4TB	$139	ST4000LM024	HERE
Seagate Portable 5TB	STGX5000400	5TB	$147	ST5000LM000	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 6TB	STLC6000400	6TB	$151	ST6000DM001	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 8TB	STLC8000400	8TB	$169	ST8000DM001	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 10TB	STLC10000400	10TB	$259	ST10000DM001	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 12TB	STLC12000400	12TB	$279	ST12000DM001	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 14TB	STLC14000400	14TB	$299	ST14000DM001	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 16TB	STLC16000400	16TB	$309	ST16000NM001J	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 18TB	STLC18000400	18TB	$360	ST18000NM007J	HERE
Seagate One Touch Hub 20TB	STLC20000400	20TB	$488	ST20000NM001J	HERE
Seagate One Touch 1TB	STKB1000401	1TB	$45	ST1000LM024	HERE
Seagate One Touch 2TB	STKB2000401	2TB	$89	ST2000LM015	HERE
Seagate One Touch 4TB	STKC4000401	4TB	$114	ST4000LM024	HERE
Seagate One Touch 5TB	STKC5000401	5TB	$199	ST5000LM000	HERE
Seagate Portable Expansion 1TB	STEA1000400	1TB	$41	ST1000LM035	HERE
Seagate Portable Expansion 2TB	STEA2000400	2TB	$67	ST2000LM007	HERE
Seagate Portable Expansion 4TB	STEA4000400	4TB	$146	ST4000LM024	HERE
Seagate Expansion 3TB	ST7300USBME	3TB	$154	ST3000DM001	HERE
Seagate Expansion 6TB	STKP6000400	6TB	$118	ST6000DM004	HERE
Seagate Expansion 8TB	STGY8000400	8TB	$197	ST8000DM004	HERE
Seagate Expansion 10TB	STKP10000402	10TB	$219	N/A	N/A
Seagate Expansion 12TB	STKP12000402	12TB	$239	ST12000NM001G	HERE
Seagate Expansion 14TB	STKP14000402	14TB	$239	ST14000NM001G	HERE
Seagate Expansion 16TB	STKP16000402	16TB	$309	N/A	N/A
Seagate Expansion 18TB	STKP18000402	18TB	$329	N/A	N/A
Seagate One Touch SSD 1TB	STKG1000402	1TB	$135	BARE / CUSTOM	HERE
Seagate One Touch SSD 2TB	STKG2000402	2TB	$176	BARE / CUSTOM	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 1TB	STEL1000400	1TB	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 2TB	N/A	2TB	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 4TB	STEL4000200	4TB	N/A	N/A	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 4TB (2019)	STEB4000200	4TB	$298	N/A	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 5TB	STDT5000100	5TB	$139	ST5000DM000	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 6TB	STEL6000200	6TB	$249	N/A	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB	STEL8000200	8TB	N/A	ST80000DM0004	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 10TB	STEL10000400	10TB	$286	ST100000DM0004	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 12TB	STEL12000400	12TB	N/A	ST12000DM0007	N/A
Seagate Backup Plus Hub 14TB	STEB14000402	14TB	N/A	ST14000DM001	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB	SRD00F1 1TB	1TB	$39	ST1000LM024	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB	SRD00F1 2TB	2TB	$54	ST2000LM024	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Slim 4TB	SRD00F1 4TB	4TB	$99	ST4000LM024	HERE
Seagate Backup Plus Slim 5TB	SRD00F1 5TB	5TB	$147	ST5000LM000	HERE
Seagate Expansion Hub 12TB	N/A	12TB	N/A	SR12000NM001G	N/A
Seagate Expansion EXT 1.5TB	N/A	1.5TB	N/A	ST31500541AS	N/A
Seagate Backup+ Hub 8TB	SRD0PV1	8TB	N/A	ST80000DM0004	HERE

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WD/Western Digital USB External HDDs and SSDs and the Drive Inside:

Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California. It designs, manufactures and sells data technology products, including data storage devices, data center systems and cloud storage services. Western Digital has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. It is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers, along with producing solid state drives and flash memory devices. Its competitors include the data management and storage companies Seagate Technology and Micron Technology.

External Drive Name/Series	Model ID	Capacity	Price (14/4/23)	HDD/SSD Inside	Check on Amazon
WD 22TB My Book	WDBBGB0220HBK-NESN	22TB	$582	WD220EDGZ	HERE
22TB WD Elements	WDBWLG0220HBK-NESN	22TB	$379	WD200EDGZ	HERE
WD 20TB Elements	WDBWLG0200HBK-NESN	20TB	$373	WD200EDGZ	HERE
WD 18TB My Book	WDBBGB0180HBK-NESN	18TB	$349	WD180EDGZ	HERE
WD 18TB Elements	WDBWLG0180HBK-NESN	18TB	$399	WD180EDGZ	HERE
WD 16TB My Book	WDBBGB0160HBK-NESN	16TB	$298	WD160EDGZ	HERE
WD 16TB Elements	WDBWLG0160HBK-NESN	16TB	$267	WD160EDGZ	HERE
WD 14TB My Book	WDBBGB0140HBK-NESN	14TB	$259	WD140EDFZ	HERE
WD 14TB Elements	WDBWLG0140HBK-NESN	14TB	$249	WD140EDFZ	HERE
WD 12TB My Book	WDBBGB0120HBK-NESN	12TB	$215	WD120EDAZ	HERE
WD 12TB Elements	WDBWLG0120HBK-NESN	12TB	$234	WD120EDGZ	HERE
WD 10TB Elements	WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN	10TB	$198	N/A	HERE
WD 8TB My Book	WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN	8TB	$136	WD80EDBZ	HERE
WD 8TB Elements	WDBWLG0080HBK-NESN	8TB	$189	WD80EZZX	HERE
Western Digital My Book 1TB	WDBACW0010HBK-01	1TB	$73	WD10EZRX	HERE
WD 4TB My Book	‎WDBBGB0040HBK-EESN	4TB	$99	WD40EZRZ	HERE
WD 6TB My Book (2018)	WDBBGB0060HBK-NESN	6TB	$139	WD60EZRZ	HERE
WD 6TB My Book (2019)	WDBBGB0060HBK-NESN	6TB	$139	WD60EDAZ	HERE
WD Easystore 22TB	WDBAMA0220HBK-NESN	22TB	$514	WD220EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 20TB	WDBWLG0200HBK-NESN	20TB	$373	WD200EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 18TB	WDBAMA0180HBK-NESN	18TB	$279	WD180EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 16TB	WDBAMA0160HBK-NESN	16TB	$269	WD160EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 14TB	WDBAMA0140HBK-NESN	14TB	$219	WD140EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 12TB	WDBAMA0120HBK-NESN	12TB	$199	WD120EDGZ	HERE
WD Easystore 8TB	WDBAMA0080HBK-NESN	8TB	$149	WD80EMAZ	HERE
WD 5TB My Passport Ultra	WDBFTM0050BBL	5TB	$123	WD50NDZM	HERE
WD 4TB My Passport Ultra	WDBFTM0040BBL	4TB	$119	WD40NMZM	HERE
WD 2TB My Passport Ultra	WDBC3C0020BBL	2TB	$131	WD20NMZM	HERE
WD 1TB My Passport Ultra	WDBC3C0010BSL	1TB	$89	WD10NMZM	HERE
WD General External	WDBJRT0040BBK-0A	4TB	$132	WD40NMZW	HERE
WD My Cloud Mirror (White)	N/A	4TB	$339	WD20EFRX (2x)	HERE
WD 4TB EX2 Ultra	N/A	4TB	$139	WD20EFRX (2x)	HERE
WD 4TB My Cloud EX2	WDBVBZ0040JCH	4TB	$99	WD20EFAX (x2)	HERE
WD 8TB My Cloud EX2	WDBVBZ0080JCH	8TB	$399	WD40EFAX (x2)	HERE
WD 12TB My Cloud EX2	WDBVBZ0120JCH	12TB	$399	WD60EFAX (x2)	HERE
WD 10TB My Cloud EX2	WDBVBZ0100JCH	10TB	$318	WD50EFRX (x2)	HERE
WD 2TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud	WDBVXC0020HWT	2TB	$212	WD20EFRX	HERE
WD 4TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud	WDBVXC0040HWT	4TB	$189	WD40EFRX	HERE
WD 6TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud	WDBVXC0060HWT	6TB	$220	WD60EFRX	HERE
WD 6TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Duo	WDBVXC0060HWT	6TB	$379	WD30EFRX (2x)	HERE
WD 8TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud	WDBVXC0080HWT	8TB	$270	WD80EFAX	HERE
WD 12TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Duo	WDBMUT0120JWT	12TB	$479	2X WD60EFRX	HERE
WD 16TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Duo	WDBMUT0160JWT	16TB	$699	2X WD80EFAX	HERE
WD 20TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Duo	WDBMUT0200JWT	20TB	$949	2X WD100EFAX	HERE

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Toshiba USB External HDDs and SSDs and the Drive Inside:

Toshiba‘s early history has two strands: One is Tanaka Seizo-sho (Tanaka Engineering Works), established in 1882, and based on a factory started by Hisashige Tanaka (1799-1881) in 1875. Tanaka was well known from his youth for creations that included mechanical dolls and a perpetual clock. Eventually, under the name Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works), his company became one of Japan‘s largest manufacturers of heavy electrical apparatus. The other is Hakunetsu-sha & Co., Ltd. established as Japan’s first manufacturer of incandescent lamps. Subsequent diversification saw the company evolve as a manufacturer of consumer products. In 1899, it became Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co.). In 1939, these two companies, leaders in their respective fields, merged to form an integrated electric equipment manufacturer, Tokyo Shibaura Denki (Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd.). The company was soon well known as ‘Toshiba,’ which became its official name in 1978.

External Drive Name/Series	Model ID	Capacity	Price (14/4/23)	HDD/SSD Inside	Check on Amazon
Toshiba 1TB Canvio Basics	HDTB410EK3AA	1TB	N/A	MQ04ABF100	HERE
Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics	HDTB420EK3AA	2TB	N/A	MQ04UBB200	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Advance 4TB	HDTCA40XG3CA	4TB	$99	MQ04UBF100	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Advance 2TB	HDTCA20XG3AA	2TB	$69	MQ04UBB200	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Advance 1TB	HDTCA10XG3AA	1TB	$52	MQ04ABF100	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Flex 4TB	HDTX140XSCCA	4TB	$137	N/A	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Slim 2TB	HDTD320XS3EA	2TB	$89	N/A	HERE
Toshiba Canvio Slim 2TB	HDTD310XK3DA	1TB	$52	N/A	HERE

 

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Four Ways to Find Out the HDD or SSD Inside a USB Enclosure without Opening One Up!

Let’s be honest, if you are reading this article, it is because you want to shuck one or more drives, but you are MASSIVELY on the fence about it and were looking for proof and/or confirmation that the drive inside a certain enclosure is worth shucking! However, between the brands choosing to refresh their external drives and their contents periodically, the possibility of a drive using a modified USB bridge internally and/or wanting to check for yourself but send it back if it’s useless – there is ALOT that can threaten your chances of a good shucked drive! So, below is four ways your can choose to find out the drive that is inside an external drive without invalidating your warranty AND still allow you to have your 14-day return policy honoured! There is arguably something of a moral grey area when it comes to the third choice in the case of buying from a small business, so if you must pursue that one – do not do this to a small eShop or business that lives/dies on it’s smaller profit margins. Saving you money by shucking is one this – screwing over a small business is a different story! These are the four methods I used to check and identify the drives mentioned in the lists above, but DO REMEMBER that in most cases the information you might retrieve might be dated and/or subject to change at that very moment outside of that specifically sourced example! Sorry to be such a gloomy guss – but it’s important to stay relative and realistic! Let’s go. 

Shucking Discover Method #1 – Check the Amazon Review Images or Text

This is one that is often overlooked (but also does require a little bit more work and verification than it might seem at first glance), but if you look at the bulk of external drives on Amazon, you will find there are literally thousands of reviews! This is because external drives are still (even in 2023) one fo the most purchased forms of consumer storage in the market. Now, these reviews can help you identify which HDD/SSD is inside an external drive in a couple of ways. The first way is to head to the ‘Review Images’ section and from there you can scroll through the images that have been included with good/bad reviews that show you a tonne of stuff! This will obviously include images of the external drive and/or shipping boxes (pretty useless to our purpose) BUT they very often include pictures of the drive casing being opened for more thorough reviews and also people show images of benchmark/test software that will show the drive that is inside the case (see example below):

Alternatively, you can also use the text-based search areas of Amazon’s review pages to search either the reviews themselves OR the questions area for terms such as ‘drive inside‘, ‘shuck‘, ‘internal‘, ‘model‘ or even a partial model ID. For example, most WD drives that are used in external drives start with the model ID ‘WD4‘ for a 4TB or ‘WD10‘ for a 20TB. The same applies to Seagate, with them using the likes of ‘ST4000‘ or ‘ST6000‘ for 4TB or 6TB, respectively. (Example below):

It is worth keeping in mind, however that Amazon groups it’s reviews together by ‘similarity’ in terms of a product. This is something that, frankly, NO ONE LIKES! So, just because a review image/text has been found on a specific Amazon product page, it is not necessarily for that product. So, make a point of checking the review in full by clicking on the date review title and this will take you to the review in the context of the product it was made on. This means you can doube/triple check that it is still relevant to the external drive you are looking at.

Shucking Discover Method #2 – Check Reddit!

If you think drive shucking is relatively new – think again! It has been going on pretty much since ready-made USB drives from Seagate and WD have been available commercially! And in that time, numerous data storage reddits have sprung up that are full of people kindy sharing drives that are worth shucking. The results can differ wildly in terms of their publication dates and the model IDs of the drives involved, but if you are willing to take a little bit of time searching from a specific external Drive ID and whether it has been shucked, you will often find the answer there! Enormous SHOUT OUT to the /DataHoarder reddit HERE!

Alongside lots of examples of specific external drives that have been shucked, you will also find a while bunch of general discussions (such as this one) that will generally discuss the merits of shucking and examples of drives you might consider!

Shucking Discover Method #3 – Use CrystalDiskInfo to Check the External USB Drive FIRST!

Now, this one is not something I would generally recommend, as it is bending the rules the tiniest bit in terms of consumer rights! However, if you are happy to deal with a near-immediate return on an item you buy online as per your consumer rights (and more likely than not happy to pay the return shipping), you can use software to see the contents of an external drive without lifting so much as a single screwdriver! If you connect any external drive to your computer and use the free CrystalDiskInfo software (found HERE) to check the health of your connected drives, it will see the model ID of the drive inside the enclosure and display it via the application (see below):

CrystalDiskInfo has been around for well over a decade now (as well as diversifying into popular benchmark tools) as largely freeware (with optional donations here). You WILL need to connect the external drive physically over USB to your system, but you will not need to initialize/format the drive, nor assign it a drive letter. Just ensure that the drive is fully connected and powered on, then run the software. It is also worth highlighting that SOME drives are hard labelled with the model ID of the external drive (more common with SSDs), but the bulk of external drives that run with HDDs internally will show the drive inside.

Shucking Discover Method #4 – Use Review Sites and/or YouTube Reviews

This method is one that is probably the most time-consuming of all methods to check the internal drive that is included with your external WD or Seagate drive, but PLENTY of YouTube Reviewers (myself included) will make a point of highlighting the drive that is encased inside. This is because it helps to identify whether the drive is good value and/or high quality. So, if you are considering a USB drive for shucking, make a point of looking for a review on YouTube first. There is a decent chance they will either crack it open at one point in the vid OR they will use tools such as CrystalDiskMark or CrystalDiskInfo to test the drive’s temperature in operation and performance. Either way, this will end up being a very good way to find out which specific HDD is inside an enclosure, or at the very least which HDD/SSD series is used in a given external HDD range. Fair warning though, once HDDs cross around 10-12TB, many brands (through necessity) will switch from a standard class drive towards a Pro or even Enterprise class drive. So this can make tracking an HDD in a broad capacity-supported range a little trickier!

Alternatively, if the external drive is particularly popular and/or has been in the market for at least a year – there is a pretty high chance that you will come across specific shucking videos online that will not only tell you the drive model inside, but also some useful specifics about what the drive is capable of! A good example is below:

Finally, it’s worth highlighting that the same logic I highlighted for finding out the internal drive using YouTube Reviews still massively works with written review sites too! If anything , if you visit the right sites (StorageReview, TechRadar, theSSDReview, NASCompares cough), they will quickly detail the drive found inside most systems. A fantastic example highlighted below, which I mentioned in a recent video, is this review of the Sandisk Extreme Pro 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gb/s) drive over on theSSDReview.com. This USB drive can be opened up in less than a minute and contains a PCIe Gen 3×4 M.2 NVMe 2280 SSD – the WD Black SN750. This is a big deal, because although the external enclosure can only maximum transfer 1,000MB/s, the drive inside can comfortably hit 3,100MB/s if shucked and put in an available Gne3 M.2 NVMe SSD slot. A massive performance improvement for your storage AND the Sandisk external costs less than buying the WD Black SN750 on it’s own! Score!

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Is External Drive Shucking Still Worth It in 2023/2024?

As long as there have been ready-made USB external hard drives, there has been shucking. Hard Drive Shucking (and in recent years, even SSD shucking) is the process of purchasing an external HDD/SSD enclosure, such as WD My Book or Seagate Backup Plus drive, and then cracking open the casing to get the drive inside. Now, on the face of it, this might seem a bit daft. After all, you can definitely still buy bare/internal HDDs on there own. Why would you go the ‘scenic route’ and purchase a lovely well designed external drive, only to crack the casing open, possibly undermining your warranty, when you can just simply buy the bare drive online and not have to get your hands dirty? Well, the reality of shucking is actually a great deal more nuanced and there are actually several more advantages to HDD/SSD shucking above and beyond the price point! So, today I want to discuss the three reasons why you might want to consider shucking a hard drive or SSD (as well as three reasons why you might want to give it a miss and buy an internal drive at retail). 

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How To Choose The BEST Value Hard Drive And Best Price Per TB – Get It Right, FIRST TIME!

Below you will find our automatic hard drive price per TB/GB tool, designed to crawl many, MANY different eShops and divide their cost between the available storage. This allows us to rank/list these drives by the largest amount of terabytes youwill get for your money. This list includes popular hard drive manufacturers, such as Seagate, WD and Toshiba, allowing you to ensure that you are getting excellent value for money on your storage, as well as only choosing the most reputable HDD makers in the world. Before you head down there though, take a moment to quick familiarize yourself with a few key factors that will aid you in understanding how to understand what separates one HDD from another.

Click Below to Use the Best Price per TB Chart (Updated Daily)

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