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Swapped from replacing whole hard drives to just swapping the control boards on failed ones
At 2am last night I saved a client's 2012 Dell with a dead WD drive by swapping the board from a donor drive, instead of the USB recovery I used to do for everything, and now I'm wondering if more techs should bother with component-level repair on old drives.
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tarak172d ago
Blew up three donor boards before I got one right.
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derek_burns1d ago
Man, that reminds me of something I saw about people having crazy bad luck with those things... heard someone say the newer boards are way more finicky than the old ones.
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