Been using UnRaid for a while now and have built up quite the collection of data.
I have (had) 8 Western Digital Red 3TB drives as my data array protected dual parity drives.
I have just bought a Lian Li D8000 as I had outgrown my old Fractal R3. I was in the process of moving everything across this weekend. Booted up and UnRaid couldn't see two of my drives. Powered down and swapped some drives around, booted up again and UnRaid couldn't find four of my drives.
Did some more moving round and couldn't get any of the four to be seen my UnRaid, they weren't even spinning.
After some more checking I realise that I had managed to plug a molex in upside down on to one of the Lian Li Backplanes I had installed. Both drives that were connected had their PCBs fried. When I moved the drives around to test I had fried another two!
See how easy that is here:
That was 12tb of data gone in the space of 10 minutes all because of one stupid mistake!
Using one of my good drives I was able to swap PCBs with a dead drive and get it spinning again. However I would need to swap the ROM chips on the PCB to get the dead drive working again and be able to access the data.
Just wanted to get some opinions.
1) Over and above frying the PCB am I likely to have done any damage to the hard drive itself (i.e. will I be able to get the data back?)
2) If I can get a working PCB with the ROM chip swapped from a dead drive is that a potential permanent fix, or just enough to get the data off of the drive?
I could live without the data so am not going to spend loads of money getting them back to life, but if I could do it for around £50-£75 per drive it something I'd consider.
I have (had) 8 Western Digital Red 3TB drives as my data array protected dual parity drives.
I have just bought a Lian Li D8000 as I had outgrown my old Fractal R3. I was in the process of moving everything across this weekend. Booted up and UnRaid couldn't see two of my drives. Powered down and swapped some drives around, booted up again and UnRaid couldn't find four of my drives.
Did some more moving round and couldn't get any of the four to be seen my UnRaid, they weren't even spinning.
After some more checking I realise that I had managed to plug a molex in upside down on to one of the Lian Li Backplanes I had installed. Both drives that were connected had their PCBs fried. When I moved the drives around to test I had fried another two!
See how easy that is here:
That was 12tb of data gone in the space of 10 minutes all because of one stupid mistake!
Using one of my good drives I was able to swap PCBs with a dead drive and get it spinning again. However I would need to swap the ROM chips on the PCB to get the dead drive working again and be able to access the data.
Just wanted to get some opinions.
1) Over and above frying the PCB am I likely to have done any damage to the hard drive itself (i.e. will I be able to get the data back?)
2) If I can get a working PCB with the ROM chip swapped from a dead drive is that a potential permanent fix, or just enough to get the data off of the drive?
I could live without the data so am not going to spend loads of money getting them back to life, but if I could do it for around £50-£75 per drive it something I'd consider.
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