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    2TB hard drives

    I picked up some nice things out there today and was wondering about some hard drives I found.
    they are external drives, as in they have an outer casing they sit in.
    2.0TB Western Digital Caviar Green.
    what do you think, would these have anything more then say a 60GB hard drive has?
    what would be different? they feel heavier then normal,



    but they all seem to of had a whack maybe with a hammer on the back where the board is, more like a dent so I don't think they would be worth trying to sell, see the screw on the right and the little crack?



    was thinking maybe there's a component inside that might be special?

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    a terabyte is 1024 Gig
    The whack is probably intentional to destroy the drive's data.

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    so no extra magnet or something?
    well i'll scrap 'em and see, i'll take pics.

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    I rather try to see if they work 2tb internal drives are super nice. I know i just about filled up my first tb this year.
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    DONT SCRAP IT! Test it and see if it works. If it does, sell on craigslist or even ebay.

    2tb hard drives of any kind, are in good demand!
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    I think you'll find that "whack" was a well placed blow to the drives internal motor, rendering it entirely useless

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    To try and answer your question, I think you'll find 1 or 2 extra platters inside but being newer they might be glass platters, like Olddude was talking about awhile back.
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    If they Work Ill buy em!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear View Post
    I think you'll find that "whack" was a well placed blow to the drives internal motor, rendering it entirely useless
    My thoughts exactly Bear. I clicked on the thread initially to tell him "^%*$ NO, don't scrap 'em". LOL. Until he pointed out the damage. Certainly worth trying out to see if they work, but a shame they didn't just do a multi wipe to overwrite the data. You could sell those all day long on ebay. Note to others, if you come across any working TB externals, sell!

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    I scrapped one and did a small hard drive to compare.
    not sure of the size of the other h/d but that had just one thin platinum disk and 1 magnet and the board.
    the 2t h/d had 4 really thick platinum disks, 2 magnets and a 2 piece board, it weighed about 3 times as much
    and the discs were at least 3 times as thick.

    not much to add, just thought i'd update.

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