This is probably a stupid question but... Is this hard drive left open, with the expectation that I somehow cover up the insides? I am used to them looking more like this, without the guts showing.

The image will just be for illustration purposes. Once the drive is open like that, it's effectively wrecked unless it's done in a hardware clear room.

That's what I thought but I'd hate to spend money and find out I need parts and skills I don't have.

Thanks!

Quote: Original post by krez
That's what I thought but I'd hate to spend money and find out I need parts and skills I don't have.

Thanks!

LOL!
I've never given a 2nd thought about how online retailers display images of harddrives but if you take it literally, yeah you'd be recieving a wrecked drive if it came like that LOL!
I'm guessing someone in marketing decided showing the outside of a drive wasn't very exciting or sexy hence the common practice of showing the guts of harddrives instead.
Only drive that ever came like that, showing the insides, was the raptor x which isn't made anymore :(