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.
Where do you live that “local electronics repair place” is a thing you can casually just find? We have tons of mobile repair places, but they generally just do screens and batteries, and maybe they’ll send it in somewhere if it’s more than that.
We have a TV repair place, but I don’t know if they do smaller electronics like drives. They have to exist, I just don’t know how to find them.