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Trying to repair a mechanical hard drive, need tips
i3iorn replied to i3iorn's topic in Storage Devices
Thank you for elaborating. -
Trying to repair a mechanical hard drive, need tips
i3iorn replied to i3iorn's topic in Storage Devices
Well thanks both of you for the swift replies. Had hoped there was something left to try. -
Trying to repair a mechanical hard drive, need tips
i3iorn replied to i3iorn's topic in Storage Devices
So I guess I'll make a fancy refrigerator magnet then : / -
Trying to repair a mechanical hard drive, need tips
i3iorn replied to i3iorn's topic in Storage Devices
Wait so replacing the I/O board is an option or not? I've heard that you pretty much need an I/O board from an identical drive manufactured around the same time as the one you replace. Is that true? -
Trying to repair a mechanical hard drive, need tips
i3iorn replied to i3iorn's topic in Storage Devices
Don't care about the data. As in you can't build this fusion reactor in your living room or You can't drive through London in rush hour? Could you elaborate or point me to a good source as to whats going on? -
Hi! I have a 2tb WD green pulled from a computer of unknown origin that I want to repair. I want to see if I can no matter how much time it takes and I'm willing to spend up to the value of a new HDD of the same kind. I just want to learn and see what can be achieved. So with that out of the way here is what I have. The hdd is recognized by the motherboard and disk manager in windows. I can't however initialize the disk. When I try to initialize it through the disk manager I get an error prompt with the text "Request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.". When I run spinrite6 it shows the drive as having about 8gb's of space, bad sign. Then I run spinrite at level 2 and get an error it could not recover from after 4% and no change in the state of the drive. Is there a way to run chkdisk on a drive thats not initialized? I have tried googling the issue but so far not come up with anything that is applicable in my case. So now I'm at the end of my knowledge so I'm looking for some pointers on what to try next or a good source where I can learn more about hard drive repairs. I have attached the drive information as logged by SeaTools. I appreciate everyone who take their time to read and think about this and any advice. WD-WCC4MRKT83EH.log
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Are you testing in open air or in a case? Did you test the other boards in the same conditions? Have you checken that the cpu actually runs a 2.5ghz or are you going of the specs?
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Thank you all for your time and help I feel a lot wiser then when I woke up this morning. I will start with using two cables to be safe and do some testing on a power supply I have lying around to see how much power I can draw from one 6pin by just adding connectors.
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Thank you for that. Where did you find a cable with 12 connectors or did you make it?
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Sorry I missed that http://www.corsair.com/en/rmi-series-rm750i-750-watt-80-plus-gold-certified-fully-modular-psu-cn Well since everyone say use two cables I guess I should use two cables. Was hoping to use the last 6pin on the psu for something else. Still would be so much cleaner in the case with one less cable.
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I understand thats a problem but can you spell it out for me. Does it mean I would need a tranformer of some kind or just a question of splitting ground wires until I have enough? What I naively imagined before I asked the first question was that I could draw one cable from the psu to some kind of a hub that would electromagicly turn that power into what the drives need and then run one cable with 12 connectors down the rack of drives. Can this be done without me making the "hub" cause that part is way out of my league. But I am pretty handy in general, built the actual drivecages myself with some spare parts and a 3d printer, so some general sauldering and splitting/mergin of wires is no problem.
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I am asking if it is possible and meenmeen might just have explained tome why it might not be. I was just going from the stated power consumption of the specs and didn't take into consideration that it gets power delivered from two places. So I might have to use two cables as you said. You are correct I failed to take that into account. But if you can get 150W out of the 8-pin it sounds to me like it would be possible to power 12HDD's of that cable? If so does anyone know how it can be done?
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My graphics card draws 230W of one 8-pin connector so 120W should be no problem as long as the PSU is good to deliver that kind of power. But SATA power doesn't come from an 8-pin normaly so I have no idea how much a sata power cable can draw from the CPU. I expect alot less since I have never seen a sata power cable with more then 4 connectors.
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So I have begun a diy project based on a heavely modified Fractal Design r4. It is going to be working as a NAS but the project is mostly because it sounded like fun. Anyway I have an idea to build 12 hot swappable bays for 3.5 or 2.5 inch drives taking up the entire front of the chassi. Due to fancy, cable management and cost I'd like to power all of the harddrives of one psu cable. Since all drives will consume less then most graphics cards I know it can be done but I suck at electrical engineering so I tried google and came up with nothing ( perhaps since I didn't really know what to google ) so now I turn to you guys. If I could just get some ideas as to where to look for answeres that would be awesome. Best case scenario there is some kind of a converter I can buy somewhere. So thank you in advance and have a good day.