Disassembling Seagate One Touch 2TB portable hard drive enclosure.

Belenus

My HP Pavilion laptop has a 500GB SSD and a 1TB hard disk.

I have a Seagate One Touch 2TB portable hard drive pictured below. I would like to remove the 2TB disk and put it in my laptop as a replacement for the 1TB disk. I would then put the 1TB disk in the Seagate enclosure.

Is it easy to disassemble this external drive without damaging it and will the 2TB disk have a standard SATA interface rather than a proprietary Seagate interface?

The Seagate caddy has no obvious screws or catches. The white base extends to 3 sides and the red top extends to the fourth side. Perhaps there are screws under the label although I can't feel anything obvious with my finger.

I have googled but found nothing.

Thanks

IvanOpinion

This article might help
https://www.google.com/search?q=take+seagate+onr+touch+apart#kpvalbx=_WOWEYqn6IJXF8gLwq6SoAQ27

it appears you should be able to do what you are thinking off.  Just be aware that some drives have the USB connection built into the drive board and not as a separate daughter board that plugs into a SATA connecter.

[Deleted User]

"shucking" is the phrase you need to search with on Google - lots of people do this as a way of obtaining a hard drive cheaper than it would be to buy without an enclosure.

forgotmyname

Check before you start pulling it apart, several websites where they list a lot of enclosures and show what your likely
to find inside.

Purchased 4 x 8TB drives in enclosures because they were NAS drives but cheaper than the bare drives themselves.
You can resell the enclosures or use old drives in them as backups.