I smell smoke

[MetalDwarf]

.............and my Western Digital WD2500JB (250GB) drive is where its coming from....


:mad:

anyone know where i might get a replacment PCB for
model wd2500JB-00REA0
date: Nov 24 2005
DCM: DSCHNTJCH

[xenotype]

If it is the drive, doubtful you will find the exact same PCB with the exact same firmware, etc. But if you do, good luck, it is possible. Its an older drive, which is why I doubt its availability.

[MetalDwarf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/metaldwarf/new%20computer/harddrive-magicsmoke.jpg

[TechLarry]

Electronics run on Smoke. Now that the Smoke has leaked out, you'll have to replace it.

They are not refillable...

[ryan_975]

You're still going to have to buy a new drive even if you find a replacement PCB. There are calibration tables, bad sectors lists, and other data about the specific quirks of that exact drive that won't be the same for another drive. You can use it to get most of the data off the drive, but don't ever trust it for future use again.

[MetalDwarf]

I just wanna get the data off, I don't plan on using the drive after i have gotten the files. but i sure would like to get the contents of the drive off

[MetalDwarf]

its worse then i though... i just pulled the PCB off the drive.

the horror, the horror...:eek:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/metaldwarf/0c6108f7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/metaldwarf/90a2bdc7.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/metaldwarf/048dfca0.jpg

[Mithent]

That's scary.. that looks like three different areas that all simultaneously, well, melted? I'm amazed a hard drive could get that hot. I wonder how it happened?

[MetalDwarf]

That's scary.. that looks like three different areas that all simultaneously, well, melted? I'm amazed a hard drive could get that hot. I wonder how it happened?


came home, hit the power button, walked away for a second while i waited for it to boot, the computer spun up for a few seconds then i hear it reboot (drives stopped, fan spun down, then back up) walked back over to see what was up and there was this perfect column of white smoke billowing out of the top of the case
ZOMG!!!!:eek:
i cant reach the power cord, so the only choice i had was to hold down the power button for the EONS that it seems to take to force the power supply to shut off.
did the "sniff test" to figure out what the smoke came from. Pulled the drive and the above is what i found.

for a few months the drive has been spinning up and down at random, i just figured it was a power saving thing where the drive would spin down to save juice then back up when needed. i think it was probably the power circuitry flaking out.... should have known.

i LOVE the fact that a bunch of the parts in the really burnt chunk are crooked, which tells me it got hot enough to melt the solder holding them to the PCB... what temperature does industrial solder melt at?

next question. can someone help me set up an automatic backup system, raid 5 or something.

drives i need to back up
2x500GB in a raid-0 (OS drive)
2x320GB
i am also planning on buying another 2x500GB drives for storage
so i need to backup 2.64-ish Terabytes

[protias]

Raid is not a backup (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=952998), just a means to keep uptime. ;)

A backup is something you put on media, DVD, tape, etc.

[MetalDwarf]

any 3TB tapes out there that dont cost a first born?

what about those drobo NAS things?

[MetalDwarf]

as an added bonus it appears that when the hard drive died it took the dvd burner on the same IDE channel with it.

RIP BenQ 1640

[matrix563]

ouch sorry dude :(. my friend thinks u got zapped by white noise.

[Veedo]

wow thats crazy man, never seen a hard drive meet its fate like that before. nows a good time to start a backup plan. burn important things to media, external hard drive, etc etc. raid probably would not have done you a lick of good in that scenario. sounds like you fried your dvd drive, might have been a good chance it would have taken out one or more disks in an array.

[DeathFromBelow]

next question. can someone help me set up an automatic backup system, raid 5 or something.

drives i need to back up
2x500GB in a raid-0 (OS drive)
2x320GB
i am also planning on buying another 2x500GB drives for storage
so i need to backup 2.64-ish Terabytes

The Drobo is awfully expensive for a glorified Raid-5 based external hard drive with no ethernet connection.

Get Freenas (freenas.org) or Windows Home Server, an old Pentium III/AMD K7 machine, and some drives and build your own for half the price. It's a fun project.

[Private_Ops]

Electronics run on Smoke. Now that the Smoke has leaked out, you'll have to replace it.

They are not refillable...

Wrong, my buddy has an old 20GB that did that. I jumped the spot with a wire and it still works.

.. guess we got lucky?

[ryan_975]

Wrong, my buddy has an old 20GB that did that. I jumped the spot with a wire and it still works.

.. guess we got lucky?

Nah, it's just that you didn't let all the smoke out. What was left couldn't flow right until you "fixed" it.

[Private_Ops]

Nah, it's just that you didn't let all the smoke out. What was left couldn't flow right until you "fixed" it.

Hmm, didn't think of that. Good point.