All you would get for your effort, cracking into a case, was a cheap and slow consumer-grade drive. Historically, it didn’t make sense to bother with the effort because typically manufacturers put their lowest quality drives in external enclosures to keep costs down and profits up. The process of shucking external hard drives keeps with that theme: the goal is to remove the protective plastic shell to get to the delicious high quality drive inside.īut why bother? Why strip away all the things that make the external enclosure what it is and reduce it to the bare drive? You can, after all, just buy bare drives right from the start and skip all that hassle. The original meaning of “shucking” is to remove the shuck, or outer protective layer, from food like corn and shellfish with the ultimate goal of getting to the delicious stuff inside. Buying cheap external hard drives, cracking them open, and getting more expensive hard drives for your effort is one of those things. Every now and then, you come across something that sounds way too good to be true, but against the odds, it actually works.

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