Seagate Backup Plus Disassembly HELP!!!

[tential]

The two aren't in contradiction. The drive itself could be reformatted, destroying your data, and work as an internal. Likewise, a new internal drive could be installed into the enclosure.

The issues with sector size and placement make for a purely data-centric problem. The drive is the same an internal. The USB converter chip has had its firmware altered to write to it in a special way, so your data is effectively laid out in a proprietary fashion on the drive.

Ya I know the drive works since I know people do it obviously. I just was told I didn't have to format it at all from this forum lol. I had asked before I had purchased the drive and people said "load it up you'll be fine then take it out and put it in your PC!"

Then I learn the hardway that nope that's not how it works so now I get to buy another 4TB drive so I can get my data off the current one so I can reformat. Nothing wrong with having 10 TB of storage though!

 

[UaVaj]

Actually, that last bit isn't really true. Many people have submitted their drives that were in Seagate backup Plus for warranty that they used as internal. At least, that's what I read anyway.

if you were referring to the warranty.

tell that to seagate. both mine has no warranty as internal drives. verfied via serial number on seagate RMA site.

i guess i could put it back into the external casing and file a warranty that way. not through seagate RMA, but through OEM (aka place of purchase w/ original reciept).

issue is the casing was a pita to open. a few of the tab were broken during opening. that is definitely ground for voiding the warranty.

as for the bare drive which was pull out of the external enclosure - it does NOT have any WARRANTY whatsoever!

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if you were referring to the ez swapping of external to internal vice versa.

make sure it is native sata and you are golden.

with usb to sata. live and learn.

 

[tential]

Just found another 4TB backup plus! Staples + 20% off coupon. Yay!

 

[MrPickins]

When you say you're missing the cables, do you mean power and USB cables?

If so, just go buy a universal wall wart and a usb cable.

Ya I know the drive works since I know people do it obviously. I just was told I didn't have to format it at all from this forum lol. I had asked before I had purchased the drive and people said "load it up you'll be fine then take it out and put it in your PC!"

Then I learn the hardway that nope that's not how it works so now I get to buy another 4TB drive so I can get my data off the current one so I can reformat. Nothing wrong with having 10 TB of storage though!

If you're referring to this thread, only one person answered, and they made no mention of your data being readable via SATA after writing to the disk as a USB drive.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2310029

 

[tential]

When you say you're missing the cables, do you mean power and USB cables?

If so, just go buy a universal wall wart and a usb cable.




If you're referring to this thread, only one person answered, and they made no mention of your data being readable via SATA after writing to the disk as a USB drive.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2310029

Ha, maybe I asked somewhere else. It is fuzzy lol. I needed the missing cables, but I also needed ANOTHER 4TB drive to offload all my data to so I could format the original drive.

 

[MrPickins]

Ha, maybe I asked somewhere else. It is fuzzy lol. I needed the missing cables, but I also needed ANOTHER 4TB drive to offload all my data to so I could format the original drive.

Ahh, I see. Sounds like you've got the plan together, then.

Good luck. :thumbsup:

 

[tential]

Ahh, I see. Sounds like you've got the plan together, then.

Good luck. :thumbsup:

I got it working, but I'm using both. Just anything I copy to one I copy to another. After I get past 2.5 TB, I'll feel confident enough to format it and fill it with stuff too. Just want to make sure I don't get any funky formatting error which would suck.