HDD pcb's

i know its been said in the past that if your drive fails and its the board thats at fault buying another identical drive and swapping the board over is an option

im in a quandrary
i got a 1TB drive not so long before my old box died and recently took it and the boot drive out so it would be easier to use my sata/usb but two days after connecting the drive it died,(it didnt help that we had two power cuts in one day) it spins up and sounds 'healthy' but isnt seen, yet with no power it sometimes comes up as 'drive' in add remove hardware

its been tried on another pc directly to sata and still nothing

ive no idea, save for ripped from mp3 CD's, what ive lost that wasnt on another drive or two, without checking i think all of my digicam pics are on my boot, external and ipod (or a vast percentage on ipod) ditto for my wav's
i might only have lost my mp3's (and dirty old man pics) and if thats the case no biggie, it just sucks having a bricked 1tb drive (that is in warranty)

but seeing as its aprox £100 for the drive to try a board swap and then send it back as DOA and im not 100% sure of data loss, is there a site that sells boards alone that i could atleast try before posting it back under warranty, id rather not have to go through the slog of ripping all those cd's again
or for that matter brick the new drive swapping things over and having to send that one back with mine still toast, i think the seller might think something was up for two drives to be dead and not refund one or both

well i searched ebay and they only listed complete drives and a boiled kettle left a steamed up message to seagates trouble shooting page and tbh i need a sata mobo to test their options out as it might be a corrupt partition after all, so i might borrow guy upstairs box for a wee bit

I always find your posts desperately difficult to read, I don't know why... maybe there isn't enough punctuation.

Anyway, why don't you just get them to replace it if its faulty and in warranty? Losing a bunch of MP3s and some porn isn't a great loss. Trying to 'fix it' yourself will definitely invalidate the warranty.

Next time, go for a RAID setup instead of shovelling everything into a single unit - I've said this before. That way if a drive dies, you can swap it out without losing everything.

We have some neat HDDs in our SAN at work - SCSI fiber optic so very fast but the cool thing is they detect when they're likely to fail and 'phone home' to tell a technician who arrives the next day with a replacement. All without us knowing anything about it until he turns up. :p

Mind you, the drives are a grand a pop. :/

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