purchasing HD logic boards?

[sarbz]

Does anyone know of a place that sells logic boards for HD's? I have a bad maxtor drive, and I'm 110% positive it's just the logic board that's bad. Maxtor isn't very helpful over the phone, and I don't want to send it to a data recovery place ($300+).

Any ideas?

[xonik]

eBay.

It's not like Maxtor sells the controller/logic boards to end users, because this is a pretty risky undertaking, not to mention the low volume of boards that would be demanded.

[Order]

Have you tried Ebay?
Ask the guys over at storagereview.com, also. They generally have some good sources.

[mashie]

Just buy another identical drive and swap the boards over.
Recover data.
Put the new drive back together again and use it as normal or sell it.