A slang term used in the
Data Hoarder community to describe the act of buying an
external hard drive for a discounted price and extracting the actual
HDD inside for use in a desktop computer or a server.
Drives acquired in this manner are often significantly cheaper than if the HDD was bought as a standalone product off the shelf.
Dude, you won't believe this, I bought this external
HDD yesterday,
shucked it and the drive inside is like twice the price of this whole thing. I saved like a 100 dollars!
Shucking is awesome!