Ur_Mom
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I had a HDD crash not too long ago. And, what was supposed to be my backup drive ended up being the very important 'data' drive...
I have the same model drive that works (fresh refurb from Seagate) that I can use as a donor drive. Does anyone work in a data recovery or clean room that can swap out platters or heads? I was quoted $1500 from a data recovery service for doing so.
This model suffers from a bad firmware that can cause some of the issues I have, but the clicking noise makes me think it's more than just the firmware.
Budget of ~$250. The data is mostly replaceable, but there is some stuff on there that isn't. I have a solid online backup solution now to replace the 'second drive' solution I had before.
Anyone capable of doing something like this? I can supply both the bad drive and a good donor drive (and could get another drive to copy the data back on to for recovery purposes). I doubt this is something I could do myself. There are guides on how to do it, but I'd like a bit more of a success rate (and pretty sure my limits are a bit before that). I can't do $1500, and the data isn't work that, TBH. But, $250ish would be closer.
I have the same model drive that works (fresh refurb from Seagate) that I can use as a donor drive. Does anyone work in a data recovery or clean room that can swap out platters or heads? I was quoted $1500 from a data recovery service for doing so.
This model suffers from a bad firmware that can cause some of the issues I have, but the clicking noise makes me think it's more than just the firmware.
Budget of ~$250. The data is mostly replaceable, but there is some stuff on there that isn't. I have a solid online backup solution now to replace the 'second drive' solution I had before.
Anyone capable of doing something like this? I can supply both the bad drive and a good donor drive (and could get another drive to copy the data back on to for recovery purposes). I doubt this is something I could do myself. There are guides on how to do it, but I'd like a bit more of a success rate (and pretty sure my limits are a bit before that). I can't do $1500, and the data isn't work that, TBH. But, $250ish would be closer.