I have what I beleive to be two bad TVS diodes on my Seagate LP 2TB hard drive. I plugged in the wrong power supply to my RAID, and well, you can imagine what happened. The drive no longer spins up. I've had this issue before, and sent my drive off to Seagate to be replaced.
THIS time, I would like to get my data off first. I've heard that you can take the diodes out of circuit temporarily to bypass this (I know it's dangerous to the drive).
On the other hand, I have a crap load of "donor" drives (ie: Seagate 40GB 7200.7) that I can desolder the TVS diodes off of, are they genreally the same values? The numbers on the modules themselves don't give me any info and googles searches turn up absolutley nothing.
I would post pics, but there is no obvious damage besides the smell.
Any help is appreciated.
THIS time, I would like to get my data off first. I've heard that you can take the diodes out of circuit temporarily to bypass this (I know it's dangerous to the drive).
On the other hand, I have a crap load of "donor" drives (ie: Seagate 40GB 7200.7) that I can desolder the TVS diodes off of, are they genreally the same values? The numbers on the modules themselves don't give me any info and googles searches turn up absolutley nothing.
I would post pics, but there is no obvious damage besides the smell.
Any help is appreciated.
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