As drive prices have increased somewhat to roughly 200% in price locally over the last few weeks for raw drives, and external drive cases have not, I advised a client recently to purchase an external hard drive to save some money.<\/p>\n
The drive case he brought over to me to have installed in his desktop was a Seagate GoFlex drive.<\/p>\n
Seagate unfortunately doesn’t use screws to put the case together like other manufacturers, instead they use the dreaded plastic clips to hold the drive case together.<\/p>\n
Below is a quick pictorial to safely take apart one of these cases to remove a drive (or swap a broken drive).<\/p>\n
Essentially –<\/p>\n
1. remove the base (pulls of easily).<\/p>\n
2. stick a credit card under the top edge (I used a flat jewel screwdriver to get enough space), and unclip top<\/p>\n
3. slide drive out<\/p>\n
4. remove plastic feet and unscrew screws.<\/p>\n
5. fold down metal sticker and remove drive.<\/p>\n
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