Do you have an external Seagate Hard Drive like this one? If the hard drive dies, you shouldn't throw the whole thing away. Rather than buying a whole new external hard drive, you can save money by opening up that external hard drive and replacing the dead, internal drive with a newer one. Useing the external case and buying a cheaper internal drive will save you some bucks.
You can open the casing, put in a newer, internal drive (if your original external drive was a smaller capacity one, you might have better luck sticking with a similarly small capacity drive due to the power and firmware restrictions you could run into), and reattaching the case. 
For the full Tutorial, head over to Instructables by MonkeyAgent
For the full Tutorial, head over to Instructables by MonkeyAgent
