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  1. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Overview: étape 1, image 1 de 1
    • Above you will find a picture of the fully disassembled casing on the outside of the bay, (the board inside is not shown). The entire case is held togeter with snaps. These ones are particularly nasty and I found I could only prevent a few from breaking when opening the case even when using the gutar picks from the ifixit pro tech toolkit

  2. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Which part to remove: étape 2, image 1 de 1
    • The rear casing plate is the only neccessary one to remove, above is a picture of the case when only the rear plate is removed.

  3. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Break the snaps on the bottom: étape 3, image 1 de 2 Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Break the snaps on the bottom: étape 3, image 2 de 2
    • First, press your pick between the casing at the area right of the bottom of the label (see picture). Then press the metal spudger into the widened crack next to the pick. You can remove the pick, but if the spudger slips out of the crack, you will need to use it to get the spudger back in.

    Thanks for the tuturial! I found that using a lot more picks was helpful here. I put four across the bottom. That way you do not have to worry about the gap accidentally closing. Also, I was able to just use the picks and did not need the metal spudger using a bunch of picks.

    Paul - Réponse

  4. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Finishing the bottom snaps: étape 4, image 1 de 2 Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Finishing the bottom snaps: étape 4, image 2 de 2
    • Move the spudger so it pushes the casing off (see picture 1), you should hear loud snap noises as the snaps are broken. Slide the spudger along the crack and repeat this until you are sure there are no more snaps. There should be a small gap when you are done, (see picture two).

  5. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Breaking the snaps along the back: étape 5, image 1 de 2 Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Breaking the snaps along the back: étape 5, image 2 de 2
    • Now press the metal spudger into the crack next to the power plug (see picture 1), if the previous step was done right, it should already be separated enough to not need the pick to get it in. Do the same snapping method as before along this crack, when done there should be a small gap like the one shown in the second picure

  6. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Breaking the snaps on the top: étape 6, image 1 de 1
    • now move to the top of the case starting the spudger at the corner similar to before. Make sure it is past the small curve before prying outward (see picture 1).

    • Break the snaps on this side in the same way as before.

  7. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, breaking the front snaps: étape 7, image 1 de 1
    • With the help of the pick, get the spudger into the crack next to the seagate logo (picture 1).

    • Then break the snaps in the same way a before. if done right, the gap should be fairly big, and you should be able to begin to pull apart the two sides of the case (see next step)

  8. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Finish seperating the casing: étape 8, image 1 de 1
    • The drive is not held to either side, so be careful when separating the case.

    • At this point, all the snaps have been broken or separated. So grab the two sides near the front of the drive and begin to separate them. As you do so, make sure the snaps on either side stayed separated, if not, take the metal spudger and use it to re-separate either side.

    • Once the sides are separate the board containing the drive will be free. There are no screws holding the drive and its board in place, instead opting for some vibration dampening rubber feet on either side of the drive.

    • Pull the board and drive free from whichever side then ended up in. (see picture 1)

    • No more snaps after this point :)

  9. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Remove rubber vibartion dampeners: étape 9, image 1 de 1
    • In the picture, the drive and board are on their side. on the bottom is a screw covered with a rubber vibration dampener. the top shows the other of the two on this side without the rubber.

    • The rubber is not glued on, so it is very easy to remove. There are two on each side of the drive for a total of four. Remove them all.

  10. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Remove the aluminum tape: étape 10, image 1 de 1
    • Peel the aluminum tape off of each side of the drive, it is easy to tear but with the new drive I am working on, the glue isn't very strong, so you should be able to remove it fairly easily.

    • This tape is used to protect from noise by shielding it, it is not strictly necessary if you wanted to use this board with a different drive but its there, so I decided to leave mine on the board.

    • The picture is of what it should look like after you remove the tape from the drive.

  11. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Remove the mounting screws: étape 11, image 1 de 2 Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Remove the mounting screws: étape 11, image 2 de 2
    • The rubber pieces that were removed before, covered up four screws total (2 on each side). (See Picture 1) Remove those screws using your #1 Philips head screwdriver.

    • After this, the drive is free from its mounting screws. I put the mounting screws into the rubber feet to avoid losing them. (picture 2)

  12. Seagate Backup Plus Hub Teardown, Disconnect the drive: étape 12, image 1 de 1
    • The final step is to slide the drive away from where the board plugs the sata and sata power into the drive (See Picture 1).

    • You can do this by grabbing the metal plate on the back in one hand and the drive in the other hand. then slide the board up (in relation to the drive sticker) and the drive down. then the drive is separated and ready to plug in to something else

    • If you want to store the bay once the drive is out, you can set the rubber feet with the screws inside inside of where they would be if the drive was there, then slide it into the wider part of the case such that the case matches up with the board. then press the other part of the plastic case together with it to snap it back together.

    • If this is confusing, go back a few steps and try to reverse how it was disassembled.

    • This was my first iFixit guide so be sure to tell me how I did!

    • With that, I hope you all are happy with how this guide turned out!

    This was perfect. I used a metal spudger for everything and was able to salvage some of the clips. I wanted to put in a larger hard drive and was able to with no problem. Thanks Jeff Owens

    Jeff Owens - Réponse

Spencer Warren

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Nice work. I would recommend saying “popping” or “break free” about the tabs. I’ve done enough repairs to know that… a) they are too easy to break and … b) you don’t really mean “breaking” but breaking loose. Otherwise it sounds like this is an irreversible process.

Thank you for doing this. Keep it up

Kenny Rasmussen - Réponse

OMG, yes. I haven't disassembled this drive yet. I came here looking for what was used to reassemble it, or comments on it, because of the "broken" tabs.

guardian4673 -

thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! perfect guide!

Ramitermanini - Réponse

So, mine snapped back together fine. If you were to look carefully, you would see that it had been opened but for functional purposes it is as new.

Richard White - Réponse

Nice guide. Any idea if you can put a different drive into the case and have it work?

Greg Forrest - Réponse

Thanks for the useful, pioneering guide. I opened two of these units because it was the cheapest way to get two 8TB Seagate Barracudas that I needed to populate an NAS. I think the measure of success is if you are able to re-use the case afterwards. In my case, I used the two cases with a a 3TB Barracuda and a 4TB WD. I have other cases I could have used, but the dual USB 3.0 hub on these allows daisy chaining a couple units which I find useful, so it was good to be able to salvage the case. I used about six guitar picks from my iFixit iOpener kit to do the majority of the work. I found that this kept me from needing the metal spudger so much. When doing more than one of these it is helpful to use the first one as a template to show where to apply pressure most effectively on the second one because you can apply pressure and guitar picks to the place where the tab is. When you re-use the case, make sure to test the new drive before re-closing the case.

Thanks again for showing us the path into these cases.

Paul - Réponse

Paul, every time I change the hdd the led light turned off. Did you use the same capacity hard drive replacement ? So the 4Tb with 4Tb ? I got 2 units with the same results, all led turned off although the hard disk was detected and worked. It’s just not the right capacity, from 8tb unit I put 4 Tb, and so the story goes …

(David)

SMART SKILL SKOOL -

Good work, THANKS!

I was wondering how it could be taken apart; no screws I could see. I found numerous irreparable, fatal S.M.A.R.T. errors a very short time after warranty expiration and I wished to put another drive in the shell as I like the extra USB3.0 ports.

There has to be a way to do this without breaking the tabs? Lots of picks? The picture in Step 2 showing tab locations is very helpful.

Eric Andersen - Réponse

I found with these Seagate drives with the snap tabs are really easy to open, just get a pick or credit card in 1 corner and then work round the whole outside edge and you’ll hear the popping of the tabs as you go past them. Then it should be easy enough eventually to get enough leverage to lift the cover off and even though most of the tabs will be broken most shouldn’t be at the point where they’re unusable so it should be possible to put the cover back on if you so chose to to re-use the hub.

h4x0rm1k3 - Réponse

My 4TB external drive quit working today. No light, no noise, plugging in USB to computer does nothing. Tried identical power supply from another external drive (same output specs, from the same kind of drive) - no effect. If I proceed with removing the drive, is it possible to mount it in a computer as an internal drive and see if I can spin it up and recover the data? I am hoping that just the enclosure failed and not the drive itself, but I realize that's a pretty long shot. Had a brief power failure and that's probably what nuked it, although none of my other equipment was affected.

Ian - Réponse

If anyone has an open one of these - please can you post the number on the IC nearest the USB micro-B port (with 5 legs) mine blew up in a power surge, so I can't read the number on top to pass on to a microsolder repair shop.

Weirdly the surge was seemingly caused by using a 12V 3A power adaptor, after using the drive successfully with a 12V 1.5A adaptor (and a 5V USB hub). However, the sticker on the enclosure says that 3A is the correct spec.

Either way it smells like toast now.

Thanks - I wouldn't have got inside nearly so quick without this guide. Ifixit is the best!

Circuit Bored - Réponse

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