something blew a fuse in my house and it seems it took out my 1TB Caviar blue (other drives and components survived)
i removed the faulty drive and it had that "burning" smell
so i took off the pcb to get a closer look at it and i noticed that the connections near a chip (Smooth L7251) had burnt out
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9051/img00030201006051834.jpg
http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/WD1TB/WDl_Caviar_ Black_1TB_ smooth_sm.jpg
anyway i bought another WD10EALS with the plan to get the broken drive working and copy the data off then swap the pcbs back to the original and then RMA the drive
i was lucky as the new one seemed like an almost exact match with the broken one both "WD10EALS-00Z8A0" and they where manufactured only 1 day apart
so i swapped out the pcb but it failed to work
does that mean the power surge or whatever caused the blackout took out more than just the pcb and the whole drive as well
what are my options?
i was thinking about buying another drive and seeing if that pcb works (i can return them easy enough or should i just accept that my 700gb of data i collected over the last 4 years is gone
i removed the faulty drive and it had that "burning" smell
so i took off the pcb to get a closer look at it and i noticed that the connections near a chip (Smooth L7251) had burnt out
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/9051/img00030201006051834.jpg
http://images.hardwarecanucks.com/image/akg/Storage/WD1TB/WDl_Caviar_ Black_1TB_ smooth_sm.jpg
anyway i bought another WD10EALS with the plan to get the broken drive working and copy the data off then swap the pcbs back to the original and then RMA the drive
i was lucky as the new one seemed like an almost exact match with the broken one both "WD10EALS-00Z8A0" and they where manufactured only 1 day apart
so i swapped out the pcb but it failed to work
does that mean the power surge or whatever caused the blackout took out more than just the pcb and the whole drive as well
what are my options?
i was thinking about buying another drive and seeing if that pcb works (i can return them easy enough or should i just accept that my 700gb of data i collected over the last 4 years is gone