Orange fluid leaking from HDD?

scruffeh · 4 Jul 2010 at 13:09

I noticed this as I was moving my rig across to its new case. Is this really orange fluid leaking out of the drive?

Sorry for lousy iphone camera quality, don't have a proper camera on me today.

Jokester · 4 Jul 2010 at 13:14

I think that's just the potting around where the data cable goes into the head isn't it?

Is it actually wet?

Necron · 4 Jul 2010 at 13:25

I think you're referring to the middle part where there's the motor connection. If that's not wet, it's normal, that's the protection to protect the copper wires.

scruffeh · 4 Jul 2010 at 13:51

Yeah sorry, it's the motor part of the drive as Necron suggested. Glad to hear it doesn't look suspicious, but my other 2 Seagate drives don't have it, although that could be explained by the fact that they are newer versions.

The drive appears to be working correctly so I guess that I won't worry about it for now.

Necron · 4 Jul 2010 at 13:55

Yeah, older drives used to have that type of protective 'glue'. Newer drives have another kind of connection which does not require that type of glue.

Glad I helped

scruffeh · 4 Jul 2010 at 14:00

Thanks a lot for the help