I wish this guide had also mentioned the need to set aside each of the three antennae in order to preserve their connections to the board below.

Not helpful if one is trying to remove a key for cleaning, without damaging anything.

Update: Found documentation on LaCie's legacy support site. I'd still love to see a teardown of this older drive before I need to replace the mechanism.

Thanks for posting this. I just acquired an older version of this drive, which I believe has an ATA hard drive inside. Does anyone know of a source for the LaCie Rugged Triple 160GB internals? It's so old, LaCie doesn't seem to even acknowledge it any more.

Can the outer housing be taken apart as well? I need to get into the space between the acrylic and the metal sleeve to clean what looks like dead-bug goo. Thanks.

@jeffsu Is there any any other benefit to be had? Is this storage sourced from, say, enterprise-grade stock or otherwise modified in any way that would matter to the consumer?

You folks have probably explained this elsewhere, but can you confirm that the SSDs Apple is using are open-market consumer-grade drives? The rationale behind their high upgraded-drive pricing is that there’s some sort of added Apple-specific value. Is there any?