>>1554782
>WD Elements
idk why people buy these
any other drive and you could just shuck it, put a $5 aliexpess enclosure on it and be back going
anyways, your drive is e-waste now, buy another

>>1554782
>I have to partially (like halfway in) plug it into the storage drive for its light to turn on but all my ps4 says is to many USB storage or something. Sometimes there isn't even a notification and the light always eventually goes out. Back when the storage worked the light used to blink or flash on and off now I never see that. I have a brand new micro USB 3.0 and the problem still persists now what?
Buy a working drive in the same model as your broken drive. Tear apart both drives. Remove the control board from the working drive and try replacing the board on your broken drive and then it *might* work

What I'm getting from this is my drive is screwed and I need to repair or buy a new one.

But besides that is there a way to put the data somewhere else then?

Also is WD Elements notorious or something, what going on there?

>>1554797
>what going on there?
Virtually every external drive on the market is some sort of standard drive, slapped in a tiny case with a USB adapter (the most common failure point on external drives) stuffed in it. WD being the biggest HDD manufacturer, they had the bright idea to save 25¢ and remove the USB adapter, and wire it up directly. So adding a failure point to a failure prone device

For your replacement, generally you don't want to buy an external drive unless it's some great deal. Buy an internal drive, and an adapter from AliExpress, so you have known parts

>>1554782
The drive may or may not still be able to be used. If you can open up the enclosure you can make better informed guesses as to what to do next. When connected to a computer's powered USB port, is there drive vibration/sound? If yes, then you have some hope. Dead drives have no life at all.

But you can try and take the drive itself out of the enclosure and put it into a laptop drive space if your laptop can accept a 2.5" drive. If you have adapter rails and controller board with SATA slot off ebay or whatever, you can then put the smaller drive into a desktop computer bay and maybe access it that way. Or you can buy another generic 1.5" usb 3.0 laptop hard drive enclosure and see if the drive will work that way.

That's the way I'd go personally. WD drives are shitty drives and yes they're prone to failing. BUT, with a completely different enclosure you can then try your old drive in it. If it doesn't work, well then you can buy a used 1TB laptop hard drive for like $20 and then have another usable drive. Check your local classifieds for computer hard drive deals.

>>1554814
2.5" not 1.5". Typo,

Maybe OP has a 3.5" drive? In that case a WD should be shuckable, probably, I haven't done it...

Stop pluggin in the drive. Its going to fuck up your PS4 or the drive itself more.
The pins are probably bent and its short circuting. That explains the error message on the PS4 and why half-plugging-it-in works
(because when you half plug it in, the pins land in just the right location to not short the board).

Your best bet is to get the drive replaced under warranty. Even if its expired, you should still try. They even added an extra year of warranty for that specific drive
(probably because many people are having trouble with that drive)

If you really need the data, you are going to have to pay for professional data recovery, or play roulette half-plugging it into a PC.

Leave a bad review on the product you brought from so people don't make the same mistake you did, and don't buy WD Elements again.

If the drive is the one in the pic then 99% sure you can't shuck it (and its 2.5")

Thanks for the advice I'm gonna replace the body like y'all said and extract the data.