Broken SATA connector

Howch · 27 Jun 2006 at 16:33

Can you RMA a drive that has a broken SATA connector?

I have an 80Gb WD drive here and I was wondering if I should just bin it or go for an RMA against it?

Have any of you guys RMA'd a drive with a broken SATA connector before?

Mikey1280 · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:12

Whats actually broken, a piece of plastic? I take it you broke it yourself or did it arrive broken? Do you pics?

Howch · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:16

It is the plastic L bit and it was broken when removing the drive.

It was a bit flimsy though to be fair.

Mikey1280 · 27 Jun 2006 at 17:38

Does the drive still work with out it? Is it the piece that holds the connector in place?

Howch · 27 Jun 2006 at 18:58

The drive should still work. And it is the plastic bit that holds the connector in place.

I was wondering if I RMA'd the drive if they would replace it for a nominal fee (or free is I get really lucky

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b2k_kings · 28 Jun 2006 at 13:08

I did the same thing to my Maxtor diamond 10, The plastic bit that holds the connector broke off so i just glue gunned the cable to the drive, works perfectly. Means i'm stuck with that cable now but the glue can easily be broken.

mattio1980 · 29 Jun 2006 at 20:07

b2k_kings said:
I did the same thing to my Maxtor diamond 10, The plastic bit that holds the connector broke off so i just glue gunned the cable to the drive, works perfectly. Means i'm stuck with that cable now but the glue can easily be broken.

were's your horse and cowboy boot's lol

Silver_&_Gold · 29 Jun 2006 at 20:16

mattio1980 said:
were's your horse and cowboy boot's lol

Better to bodge it than bin it

Even a big lump of blue tack would do the job, cannot believe you were considering chucking away a perfectly fine drive because of a tiny problem which can easily be worked around :confused: