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.
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Out of curiosity what conditions had to exist for backblaze to purge your drive? I use them as well and didn’t know that could happen
This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.
In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.
So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.
So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.
He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”
40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.
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.
This is encouraging. Thank you.
I imagine something like Ontrack will quote you at least $1000
If you consider the data worth that then I would go for one of the big known firms.
If not then I would start researching how to replace a pcb and risk losing the data.drivesavers, gillware, and ontrack. those are the ones i refer people to. expect a cost of $700-1000 or higher.