IOMEGA 1TB external HDD (old model)

[hj2k_x]

I bought this drive around a year ago from IC...It is the old model, which is large compared to the new one, and contains two 500GB harddrives, joined together to form one 1TB partition...

It is this one

I am assuming that the drive (casing) is now outside the meagre one year IC warranty so am keen to open it up and remove the two harddrives inside. Why do I want to do this?
a) I hear these things fail quite often (the enclosures more than the drives)
b) The thing is noisy! Louder than the entire rest of my PC - fans et al.

I have some questions:

1) Presumably inside I will find 2 x 500GB HDD. Will I be able to remove them and simply connect them to my PC via SATA cables, as normal?

2) I imagine once I separate the drives, all the data on the one 1TB partition will be lost, so I should remove this all first?

3) Has anyone opened one of these babies up that can relate their experience to me?

 

[venom]

Nah everything will be fine. A buddy of mine's Iomega case went dead. He just opened it up and directly installed the hdd with no problems

 

[hj2k_x]

Nah everything will be fine. A buddy of mine's Iomega case went dead. He just opened it up and directly installed the hdd with no problems

Cool. But was it the 1TB one with two 500GB drives inside? Cos I assume the data will be gone, once I take them out...?

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

my iomega 1tb has got 2x500gb ide...not sata

 

[hj2k_x]

my iomega 1tb has got 2x500gb ide...not sata

Which is probably why they are able to RAID the two of them together or whatever to make the 1TB....Is it the same as mine, in the pic in the OP?

 

[[OUPA]MrNutz]

thats the one yes.

and as you have pointed out - if one drive is removed/fails , data = byebye

 

[hj2k_x]

thats the one yes.

and as you have pointed out - if one drive is removed/fails , data = byebye

Ah, that is not as exciting as it could be. IDE sucks

 

[hj2k_x]

Aaaah, I can hear the drive is not happy...Scared to turn it on again for fear of losing everything.

Now, to find somewhere to put 683GB of stuffs....

 

[hj2k_x]

Opened her up to find two 500GB SATA Seagates, not IDE. HAppy with this I am. But they are the 7200.10s - they are the ones with the firmware issues, right?

 

[DJNgoma]

Opened her up to find two 500GB SATA Seagates, not IDE. HAppy with this I am. But they are the 7200.10s - they are the ones with the firmware issues, right?

7200.11s are the affected ones.

 

[Dolby]

Man, Seagate drives are EVERYWHERE

 

[hj2k_x]

7200.11s are the affected ones.

Awesomeness in that case

 

[Budza]

Try to RAID them in current PC from the start? Or is it JBOD?

 

[hj2k_x]

Try to RAID them in current PC from the start? Or is it JBOD?

Erm, I had to google JBOD

And I am still not sure what you mean...

 

[Rocket-Boy]

kekeke.
Its prolly a linux software raid. Those Iomegas run on a small linux kernel.