[Pc_Support] Help Request: HDD parts to revive dead drive

[Bryan J. Smith]

Aaron Morrison <ae4ko at amsat.org> wrote:
> I plan on swapping the electronic circuit board on the bottom long 
> enough to copy the data off of the platters.  And yes, if your
> board or drive dies, it will be replaced.  Just be sure you have
> backups of everything!

Ironically, I only have 80GB and 160GB Western Digital drives. 
Western Digital is not very good in labelling models in the same
series as either Hitachi/IBM, Maxtor or Seagate, so I don't know if
they are the same series as your 120GB.

BTW, I _never_ buy just *1* drive of the same model anymore, but at
least 2.  Typically I'm doing at least RAID-1, but I also like to buy
4 and use them in different systems so I avoid the single system
issue like you had.

My rationale is always that I'll recycle them as server drives on my
Escalade 7000/8000 series cards in arrays of 4+ in 2 or so years when
they are no longer current for my desktops.


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Bryan J. Smith     Professional, Technical Annoyance
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