Shucking a WD elements external drive for Synology

GIBURROWS · 29 Jan 2021 at 13:09

photoshop said:
After killing my 8Tb Red Pro i couldnt wait so went ahead and bought the 14TB WD.
May get another in the future when prices drop to setup RAID1

Killed it how?

photoshop · 29 Jan 2021 at 19:25

GIBURROWS said:
Killed it how?

Changed power supplies and forgot to swap out the old the power cable for the sata drive (both are modular PSU). The sata power cable is identical on both PSUs so just didn't pay enough attention

GIBURROWS · 29 Jan 2021 at 20:07

photoshop said:
Changed power supplies and forgot to swap out the old the power cable for the sata drive (both are modular PSU). The sata power cable is identical on both PSUs so just didn't pay enough attention

Did it kill the drive/drives?

photoshop · 29 Jan 2021 at 22:29

GIBURROWS said:
Did it kill the drive/drives?

It killed the one drive (8Tb) that had the old cable from the old PSU.

Must have fried the internals because now it's completely dead.

GIBURROWS · 30 Jan 2021 at 09:49

photoshop said:
It killed the one drive (8Tb) that had the old cable from the old PSU.

Must have fried the internals because now it's completely dead.

Damn. RIP.

EsaT · 30 Jan 2021 at 11:37

photoshop said:
It killed the one drive (8Tb) that had the old cable from the old PSU.

Must have fried the internals because now it's completely dead.

Could have also burned TVS diodes into short.
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/TVS_diode_FAQ.html
Here are pictures of some drives with TVS diodes marked:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/

photoshop · 30 Jan 2021 at 13:35

EsaT said:
Could have also burned TVS diodes into short.
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/TVS_diode_FAQ.html
Here are pictures of some drives with TVS diodes marked:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/

Does that mean it is repairable?

photoshop · 30 Jan 2021 at 13:37

GIBURROWS said:
Damn. RIP.

Yes damn indeed.
I'm not overly sad though as I did have 80% of it backed up and it was only my movies rather than any personal data.

I did need a bigger drive as it was getting full and was waiting for the 14Tb to drop in price so it just accelerated my decision

EsaT · 30 Jan 2021 at 14:21

photoshop said:
Does that mean it is repairable?

Possibly.
If damage is limited to those TVS diodes and possible fuses it should be repairable.

If you have multimeter you could check, if PCB has such components and how they measure.

randal · 31 Jan 2021 at 09:35

WD 14TB drives are cheaper than they were, not the cheapest they've been but pretty reasonable.

GIBURROWS · 31 Jan 2021 at 14:48

randal said:
WD 14TB drives are cheaper than they were, not the cheapest they've been but pretty reasonable.

I've stupidly bought an 8tb wd my book and 2 wd 5tb portable drives!

randal · 31 Jan 2021 at 15:06

Are the 5tb 2.5"? If so I think they're not shuckable due to having USB PCBs.

Minstadave · 31 Jan 2021 at 15:09

randal said:
Are the 5tb 2.5"? If so I think they're not shuckable due to having USB PCBs.

They're very likely SMR too.

GIBURROWS · 31 Jan 2021 at 18:47

randal said:
Are the 5tb 2.5"? If so I think they're not shuckable due to having USB PCBs.

I'm not shucking those, they will be travel friendly devices. I'll look for some 12s to shuck at some point.

photoshop · 2 Feb 2021 at 16:07

Shucked two 14Tb WD Elements the last few days.

They run cool - around 25*C

Very quiet drives which together produce about the same noise as one of my WD Red's which were also quiet drives.

Transfer rates im getting are 200mb/s