Thinking about extracting the drive from the 14TB WD Elements Desktop Hard Drives

[Bennor]

I’ve had no problems using a number of different sized mechanical hard drives in a first gen. From 250gb up to a shucked WD Elements 12TB drive. See my posts in the following discussion:

[GUIDE] Upgrade a working My Cloud to a bigger HDD (easy steps)

Going to give this a try on a shucked 12TB white label WD Elements drive from Best Buy’s US Black Friday $179.99 sale.

I later put those shucked 12TB drives into a Synology NAS where they (knock on wood) are humming long just fine for the past year.

Only issue I’ve had is trying to use an SSD drive in my first gen. Tried several different SSD low sized (64GB and 120GB) drives, none would work for some reason. They failed to boot to the My Cloud OS. Cloned or using Fox’s directions didn’t matter when it came to using SSD drives in my first gen.

Currently have an old 750GB laptop hard drive in that first gen.

[Guide] How to use a 2.5 inch hard drive in a single bay My Cloud

How to use a 2.5 inch hard drive in a single bay My Cloud Boilerplate Warning: Proceed at your own risk!!! Backup any user data, if possible, when erasing or replacing an existing hard drive!!! Note: This was done on a first gen v.4x single bay My Cloud. I assume the same can be done on a second gen single bay My Cloud running the v.2x firmware. Note on SSD Drives: I tried using two different spare SSD drives (a 64GB and 120GB drive) and was not able to get either one to properly boot. Both g…