Where Is The Hdd Located On A Venue 8 Dell Venue 8

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Disassembling a Venue 8 5120 for Recycling and I wanted to remove the HDD to destroy it and I cannot seem to figure out what part is the HDD

Tablets usually have an “HDD” soldered on to the board. Unfortunately, unless you identify the storage chips on the PCB, there isn’t a physical “HDD.” It is rare to find a replaceable/upgradable storage drive on a tablet. More appropriately, it might as well be called an SSD, but still. If you can boot it up and trigger a system reset so that it clears the onboard storage and returns to factory default, you shouldn’t need to worry about it. Otherwise, take a stab at random chips and see which ones hold the data.

This image is from dell venue 8 pro.. but the chip is an BGA-153 on ailexpress. have not hear if anyone has upgrade it or not..