jayguy10000 wrote:
but you can't chuck a torxbit in a cordless and remove 4-6 little screws?
Did you mean CAN or CAN'T? Or were you asking from the original post why they broke the board off instead of taking out the screws?
I can chuck a torx bit in my cordless drill, but it has the standard 3 jaw chuck. I have found that if you work with one type of hard drive at a time it gets faster. I sort all the hard drives by manufacture when I take the board off then get all the tiny bits ready and start pulling them apart. There are usually 3 or 4 different size screws in a drive so I take all the #8 torx screws out of each and then switch up to the other size bit which ever it may be. Kind of like an assembly line with several tools at each station. I think my best time breaking down drives was 21 per hour so that's about 3 minutes each. That was with the last station using a hammer and punch to drive the motor out.