you can, yes. it's called hard drive shucking and is extremely common.
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Yes you can and they're quite easy to take apart with a prying tool and a Philips. A guitar pick or plastic spudger works well to get it started and then use a few additional credit cards to keep the clips apart. Check out some YouTube videos on sthucking these.
You may need to tape over one of the pins on the drive depending on whether your NAS can use the 3.3V reset pin or not. A small piece of Kapton tape works well for this and you can Google photos to see which pin it is/examples of taping.
Great comment, just wanted to add two things:
- Shucking HDDs like this is very common
- The manufacturer will not warranty the drive if it is removed from the shell. If this is important to you then hang on to the shell and reassemble it to get warranty. The serial number on the HDD itself will indicate it's supported to be in a shell so there's no way around it.
Yes. You can even use it outside, connected to the NAS via USB. 😁
- Running a 4x8TB array over USB 3.0.