Fried WD hard drive needs compatible circuit board.

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Disclaimer: This is not copacetic (It is his non-copecetic friend):

My 1TB drive has just been murdered by a faulty power adapter frying the controller board.

So I am looking for a drive to scavenge the board hoping to possibly resolve this dilemma.

I guess I need a drive with warranty voided and physically crashed, not electrocuted....or

If someone has a matching functional drive I would swap for a new sealed matching one.

If a good donor board's found from a bad drive and works, I will donate the repaired drive.

The specifications underlined below are on the front of the drive and need2 be identical.

Western Digital model: WD10EARS - 00Y5B1
1.0TB WD CAVIAR GREEN 64MB CACHE

Date manufactured : 05 FEB 2010
DCM number : EGNYHT2MBB
LBA : 1953525168

Totally open to negotiation, obviously shipping etc. would be covered, logistics.......

If anyone has a working drive with the above specs and you are unhappy with it for any reason, being noisy or lightly dropped or moved around too much etc, but it still works and maybe dont trust it entirely and you can't get it swapped out this is a perfect swapping opportunity, or I can purchase it from you at current selling price.
 
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Don't have one.

Looks like copa friend is willing to spend cash, so why not write to WD & ask them for a suitable drive?
 
I have two dead WD drives at home. I will check tonight and let you know..
 
HavocXphere said:
True. On 2nd thoughts they probably wouldn't help you do drive surgery anyway.

Perhaps e-Bay?
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He's checked this in any event:

Friend said:
Western Digital does not sell or replace circuit boards or repair hard drives. They refer you to their partners for data recovery.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc..._sid=Kgvks93k&p_faqid=70&p_created=1003446260



Could not see anything helpful @WD/Stores, all their stock is new as far as drives go.


I need as close to 05 FEB 2010 manufacture date as possible. Made in Thailand.


I'd rather not reward WD thinking about it, had same model crashed a week in.
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Ebay, there's an idea. Thanks.
 
Sorry, I checked, but my 1TB WD's are all either WD10EADS or WD10EVCS models...

e-Bay may help as someone suggested, but also try a place in Midrand called CSSI - Computer Storage Services - I get my drives from them when they have specials...they also have offices in other major cities
 
howardb said:
Sorry, I checked, but my 1TB WD's are all either WD10EADS or WD10EVCS models...

e-Bay may help as someone suggested, but also try a place in Midrand called CSSI - Computer Storage Services - I get my drives from them when they have specials...they also have offices in other major cities
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Thank you very much for your effort and advice. :D
 
When my raptor stopped working and I sent it to a data recovery place I had to source the replacement donor hard drive myself. I only remember making sure the model name was the same, and the original drive was probably already 2 yrs old. It did work btw.
 
Unfortunately swapping a replacement, matching PCB onto the drive isn't enough. There is adaptive info on the PCB that is stored on the controller chip that needs to be transferred to the new PCB. This can only be done with specialised data recovery equipment. A straight PCB swap has less than 1% success rate.

That's my 2c for a Friday afternoon.
 
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