Convert Seagate Expansion to Backup Plus HDD?

willhub · 1 Oct 2018 at 13:47

Hi.

I have both a 4TB Seagate Expansion and a 2TB Backup Plus.

Is it possible to convert the Expansion into a backup plus in terms of remote backup and cloud usage, is it a case of just copying the files from the Backup Plus to the Expansion?

Reason for this. I'm going to de-shell the backup plus to use the 2TB in my laptop as it's cheaper to buy external than internal and net a much better internal drive for the price and I find the backup and cloud facilities appealing.

d_brennen · 1 Oct 2018 at 13:54

SOME external HDDs are custom jobs that aren't exactly 2.5" SATA, Western Digital springs to mind, YMMV

willhub · 1 Oct 2018 at 13:58

I'm aware of that, luckily there are videos on youtube back the Seagate backup plus and seems to come with higher prices 2.5" standard HDD's.

Firestar_3x · 1 Oct 2018 at 14:21

The external drives are typically archive drives therefore drive performance suffers.

willhub · 1 Oct 2018 at 14:23

I thought that, but I've found through researching that now a days they're actually just standard drives and from looking at ones where they have taken them our are just better drives.

https://www.howtogeek.com/324769/ho...drives-for-cheap-by-shucking-external-drives/

I never considered it until I came across "shucking"

**EDIT** - I'm getting nervous, I may find it's a soldiered USB connection, if it is then I'll give my GF it and put my less used games on my 4TB, but if it is a USB Bridge then brilliant.

willhub · 1 Oct 2018 at 22:20

If anyone is interestrd this was so easy to open and has a st2000lm007