What is Shucking A Hard Drive

To schuck a hard drive means remove the drive from a usb or external storage enclosure. Once the hard drive has been shucked from the outer shell, it can be used in a PC case as internal storage or NAS enclosure. In This video I will be shucking the hard drive from a seagate expansion drive, usb enclosure.

On some occasions , the hard drive or enclosure may have a usb to sata adapter that must be removed as shown in the video. Many time one may find a high quality enterprise grade hard disk drive inside. This was the case for the western digital easystore terebyte external hard drives often found at best buy. comments = SHARE ROCKNTV1