Need help shucking a drive.

[Chorne]

I have this 2.5 inch external drive that I was wanting to shuck to use it internally (internally in my pc that is) and discovered it has a soldered PCB with the usb connection (see pictures).

 

The drive is a 1tb seagate expansion portable drive. The actually 2.5 inch drive's model number is st1000lm025. The PCB number is 100760718 REV.C.

 

Is there any purchasable PCB that has the normal internal ports or am I completely stuck with an external drive? 

 

I'm a bit sceptical of posting to this forum as the first time I posted something I was told "just google it and you'll find out". Any help would be greatly appreciated. A point in any kind of direction would also be greatly appreciated as this is my first time shucking an external drive.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, Chorne said:

Is there any purchasable PCB that has the normal internal ports or am I completely stuck with an external drive? 

Nope, and you can't really just change the pcb on hdds either. Id just use it as a usb hdd.

[SenKa]

Firstly, i am warning you that that drive is very notorious for failure. Mind you, all laptop drives tend to get a bad rep seeing how they are in portable devices that see a lot of abuse, but this seems to be statistically significant.

 

Secondly, yes you can replace the PCB but i dont reccomend it as the cost of the PCB out-runs the cost of a new drive. See here: https://www.hddzone.com/seagate-100720903-pcb-p-604.html at $42 plus shipping i would much rather just buy a new drive.

[Chorne]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Nope, and you can't really just change the pcb on hdds either. Id just use it as a usb hdd.

Ok Thank you anyways.

 

[Chorne]

3 minutes ago, SenKa said:

Firstly, i am warning you that that drive is very notorious for failure. Mind you, all laptop drives tend to get a bad rep seeing how they are in portable devices that see a lot of abuse, but this seems to be statistically significant.

 

Secondly, yes you can replace the PCB but i dont reccomend it as the cost of the PCB out-runs the cost of a new drive. See here: https://www.hddzone.com/seagate-100720903-pcb-p-604.html at $42 plus shipping i would much rather just buy a new drive.

Thank you. I do vaguely remember reading about how poor this drive is. And the price of the PCB is obviously not worth it, you could buy a new 1tb hdd for less than that lol.