Western Digital My Passport 4TB 2.5'' USB Hard Disk Teardown (All the Chips)

I find your video very interesting, I have the same hard drisk and it has not worked for me since yesterday, I thought it could be for something internal and my question is what type of screwdriver and if possible, tell me where you bought it from?

which screw driver it needs

The connector gets damaged easily. It's not good if there's no sata PCB means you cannot use a simple enclosure to fix it.

which screwdriver do you need to take the top screws out, on the silver side?

3:34 Darn. I was hoping to replace my failing laptop drive with one of my externals. 😂

I love your accent its wonderful. This is not a troll comment.

What kinds of screwdrivers using to remove those board and parts?

man work on your accent if you record in english…. I couldnt listen to you… and prepera before you recording what you want to say

Look like it’s way too thick to fit on a laptop as an internal hard drive.

https://youtu.be/VPSnnwXN0zw

Wind chimes out of old HDDs

Go on my page. I made wind chimes out of a hdd

I'm curious about how the spindle motor is factory-mounted into the base casting in manufactory? I want to remove the motor without using a hammer, or sawing off the casting.

Great video, but for me, I'll never ever buy again a WD external HD in my life, all failed after a number of years, end of line. I am going for the SSD's rugged ones next time, cost what it costs, I don't care.

Hi one of my 2 tb external hard diskshowing that i need to format it for further usage…..but it contains lot of data in it…..and i am scared to loose it…..any suggestions please?

I have the same drive but my motherboard is broken ,can I replace it ???

Hey, I've got the 2TB variant of this same drive. It doesn't have any problems, but would it be possible to remove that interface board and find a suitable replacement with a SATA interface so that I can use it as an internal drive for my laptop? I've already got an SSD installed currently, and the old hard drive has died out. So I was wondering if I could just repurpose my WD drive as some additional storage for my laptop, instead of having to lug around this drive as an external disk.

Hi, for backup purpose , is it better to buy external like this, or internal HD and use usb hard drive enclosure for may laptop? thanks.

I just had this issue, and the tool needed is a T6 Torx

Nice camera, BTW, especially when you zoom in on the chip on the head. What camera and lighting setup do you use?

Do you have a list of the sizes of the screw bits you had to use?

cant use that drive again . as a tech nerd im cringing watching him be this rough

They hide screws under seals as warranty seals, they know you opened the drive itself 🙂

Robert, they put so many screws in the board for contact between the motor terminals, and the head terminals on the drive, all the screws keep the connections tight between board and drive 🙂

That's the big issue with these integrated drives. If the interface fails, you're stuck. On bigger enclosures that had separate USB-SATA boards you could simply take the drive out and hook it up to your desktop PC via the motherboard or another USB enclosure to get your data back assuming the drive is good. WD and Seagate do this for one thing. Data Recovery, they know you're going to be backing up to these drives, so will pay through the nose to get your precious stuff back. Better to buy two and keep two copies of everything than ending up paying $1000+ for recovery.

I have a 2019 4TB WD Element inside, looks the same as this drive.The USB port stopped working not sure by my damage or faulty. If I plug in the cord and bend a certain way the light will turn on but won't show up on computer. But it seems I cant get it steady enough to turn solid for long enough. Was wondering if I switch board from donor drive will it work or will I need to change BIOS chips and such? Any info would be appreciated. (the drive is less then 6 months old)
Thank in advance