It finally happened. I have an 8TB hdd that is completely dead. It was backed up through backblaze but they purged the entire drive a while back, way before I noticed the drive wasn’t working. So my backup is gone too.

I’m fairly certain the pcb died, so theoretically an easy fix for a specialist, I think.

I’ve never had a drive failure I couldn’t handle on my own. How much does something like this cost and is it better to find a local place or go with a ship-to-store website?

Any recommendations are appreciated.