Which external 2.5 inch usb drives contain actual SATA drives?

I know many of the modern external USB 2.5 inch drives do not contain a SATA drive inside, for instance see this YouTube video about disassembling a 2TB Western Digital My Passport drive.

However some drives still contain SATA drives, for instance this YouTube disassembly video of the 1.5TB SeaGate GoFlex drive which contains a 1.5TB SeaGate FreePlay drive that took very long to become available as SATA model.

So: which other (preferably as big as possible, and 12.5mm or less high) SATA drives can be disassembled from retail USB drives?

Edit

The background of my question is that often the official specs will not tell what kind of connector the drive inside the casing it has.

For example some specs for some 1.5TB and 2TB external 2.5inch USB drives in my answer below.

I have two reasons I want to know: often the internal drives are not sold separately at at first and when they are, they are still a lot cheaper. The first reason is most important to me:

I run several dual- and triple-drive machines of which the biggest one is the backup drive that I want to be as big as possible (especially since you now have 1TB SSDs that are 7 or 9mm high).

The OWC 960GB Mercury Electra was the first that was somewhat affordable almost 1TB SSD, but now the M500 and the 840 EVO have taken over.

I don't know where all the downvotes come from. The question is pretty clear and makes perfect sense. It is unclear though why would one want to know the answer. Still, from my experience, there is no exact way of telling until you have seen the drive disassembled - in real life or on video.

In most cases OEM will not provide the information that you want to get simply because it is out of scope of normal external HDD usage. By taking it apart you void the warranty and this is for the reason. The only thing that OEM is supposed to specify is the external interface on the casing. Which in our case is USB. Weather the actual disk inside the box is SATA or not is for you to find out if you are very curious, but you always pay the price by voiding the warranty.

In fact you have pretty much answered your own question. If one wants to know what is inside the box, one goes and watches youtube videos and hopes that someone else has disassembled it before. I know this is not very encouraging but this is the truth.

It comes down to manual tear down, or being lucky that somebody already did a tear down.

Here are some drives that I know the internals of some 1.5TB and 2TB external 2.5inch USB drives.

• Iomega 35213: 1.5TB Iomega® Prestige™ SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive. Specs in PDF Document don't tell about what the drive itself uses as an interface. Internal drive actually has a SATA connector (disassembled this myself).
• WDBU6Y0020BBK-EESN: WD Elements Portable Storage 2TB Black. Specs in Word Document don't tell about what the drive itself uses as an interface. Internal drive actually has an USB connector (disassembled this myself).
• WDBMWV0020BBK-EESN: WD My Passport Ultra 2TB Black. Specs in Word Document don't tell about what the drive itself uses as an interface. Internal drive actually has an USB connector (see first YouTube video).
• HDTB120EK3BA or HDTB120EK3CA: Toshiba STOR.E Basics 2TB Black. Specs on web page (can't find PDF or Word Document) do not tell what the internal drive uses as an interface, but there is actually a SATA drive inside which is an MQ01ABB200 which is 15mm high.
• HX-M201TCB/G or STSHX-M201TCB: Samsung M3 Portable 2TB Black. Specs in PDF document do not tell what the internal drive uses as an interface. Could not find a tear down video or description. Storatereview indicates there is a Seagate M9T drive inside.
• STDR2000200: Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB black. Specs in PDF document do not tell what the internal drive uses as an interface. But it is in fact a Seagate M9T is normally only available to OEM, and seems 9.5 mm high.
• Bare Seagate M9T SATA 2.5 inch drive model numbers include ST2000LM003 of which the PDF indicates it is 9.5 mm high and other model number are ST2000LM004 and ST2000LM006.