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Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown

Written By: Edd (and 4 other contributors)

Published: April 20, 2013

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Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown

Written By: Edd (and 4 other contributors)

Published: April 20, 2013

Comments: 3
Favorites: 14
Views: 55.5k

Teardown

Introduction

First attempt at a tear down of Seagates 3TB External Drive.

What you need

This teardown is not a repair guide. To repair your External Storage, use our service manual.

Step 1 Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown

Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown, Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown: step 1, image 1 of 1

Start at the end with the spudger
Once you have an end opened up use the credit card to hold it open

Step 2

Seagate 3TB Expansion Desktop Drive Teardown: step 2, image 3 of 3

Work around the drive, ends first then the sides to open it
This is really challenging and I did end up breaking some of the clips. Its pretty hard to tear apart.