Pickles von Brine

If it has sata it will work. You could throw that drive in a system with a pentium 4 and it would still work.

never heard them before.

That does seem like it is a CPU issue. Could be board but top slot is direct wire to CPU.

Okay so here is a case I am working on: 1) A WD drive with damaged translator Problem with modern WD 2.5" (and any WD drive with SMR) is there are not one but TWO translators in the drives. One is for the physical area of the drive, the second is for the SMR, and thus your data. This second module is called Module 190. Loose it, kiss your data good bye. The drives I see a lot are WD's 2.5" family of modern drives with SMR: Palmer - 1TB Charger - 2TB Spyglass series (there are 4 drives in the spyglass series...) - 3-5TB These are any drives made since about 2016-2017 are these families. Second is is that modern WD 2.5" drives have encryption keys embedded in the drive controller. Controller dies? Keys go with it. Swap the wrong ROM on the wrong board? Keys go with it. Some of the older spyglass, charger and palmer drives you can swap PCBs and convert them from USB to sata. New drives? You can do that for access to modules but you will have no data access till you use the original PCB. The conversion process I won't go into detail here as this is just for fun. But either way, below is an example of what is needed to convert these drives from USB to Sata when you need the original PCB. Right now I have a drive that lost its Module 190 mid recovery. Thankfully I backup all drive resources as soon as I have access to them to avoid this issue. This way you can repair/restore/recover modules as needed. However, there are other firmware issues preventing me from just writing back backup of the currently and now dead module. Second is why the module became dead in the first place? I am suspecting it became corrupt due to the weak head. However, I am unsure. Sadly Module 190 issues are rather common... Especially when there is damage to the outer edge of the platter where modules live. There are ways to get past damaged 190 but that is beyond what I can do. However, our lab has resources to handle these things. Something to me that is freaking witchcraft.

I did it from maganzines and dreams. Trust me, I did it in 2009 without access to the internet. You can do it in 2023 Linus' last build video does a great job covering eveything.

I don't get the purpose of this thread.

I am thinking this was not intentional. Maybe they were attempting to remove the drive from its enclosure and got a little spirited.

Yep. Still not sure what the person was doing.... They said they were trying to into the drive. That was literally all the notes on the case. XD Crazy enough if they do approve it can be partially recovered but man it is going to take some work. I envy the guy who has to work on it (not me)

Some past work. Flash drive with a broken connnector and ripped pads with torn traces. WD spyglass drive with sata conversion. Me fixing an opps. I damaged a trace and had to make a bodge wire on the drive above. Yes, those are tweezers I used for scale. This is at approx 50x mag.

I DM'd you.

Depending on the conditions of the platters and rom it may be recoverable.

To satiate some of you people. here is an example of what I sometimes run across. This one got away.

So, long time ago on OCN I made a thread called Xeb's Misadventures as a Data Recovery Engineer. Since OCN, well, is OCN I figured I would finally revive what I use to do. If anyone is interested I will post interesting cases that I run across, issues I hit, etc. Come along for the ride! My job ain't ever boring. I will make my first post later this weekend if I get time. Just so you guys know, here are the rules I am following: 1) I will not reveal where I work. I prefer to stay private. Please and thank you. 2) I will not go into crazy detail. This is for fun, not engineering 3) I will have a lot of things redacted for client privacy. So if you see things blacked out it is for good reason. 4) This will not be updated regularly. For now I have: 1) A WD drive with damaged translator 2) Seagate drive with firmware issues an inability to write w/ media cache damage and crashing firmware. 3) A HORRIBLY degraded SSD 4) A RAID 6 that has some funny business. - Still waiting on approval.

On a windows installer press press shift + F10 Diskpart List disk select disk <your drive number> clean close out of command line install as normal.

I would still not trust the drive. You dont just get read errors like that out of nowhere and I doubt it is a board issue.

Seagate rosewood 2.5". Not sure of size. Likely an ST1000LM025 or ST2000LM035

I doubt you are going to get anywhere. That sounds like a counterfit operation. You got burned. Please by repuatble brands not these weird no-names.

Honestly, any case I have seen where an SSD was just formatted has resulted in not recoverable situations. TRIM is damn good at getting rid of data. But bitlocker then zero out part of the drive does a good job. Destroy the bitlocker volume header and you are donzo.

Your drive has bad sectors on it. Defintiely post smart. However, depending on how bad it is it may need to go to a prop or computer repair shop for recovery.

I am rocking all Seagate drives at work (4 18TB drives raid 5, 4 22TB drives in raid 5, 3 14TB drives raid 0, 4 4TB drives raid 5). Seagate drives are good drives. WD the same. A good drive is a working drive. Shit happens. However, if this is in a mission crtiical or raid setup WD pro or Ironwolf pro drives.

Storage in these systems is proprietary and soldered. Otherwise yes, they are... a bit steep.

Toyota's production in some of their plants in Japan came to a hault because of a lack of disk space... Quotes For a large company one would think this would be handled yet it took them 2 days to figure it out. No reporting? Or are these systems very old and require manual maintenance? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/insufficient-disk-space-caused-2-day-shutdown-of-toyotas-japanese-factories/

I agree.

I am not sure exactly how to feel about this till more comes out. Part of what she says sounds like she is angry about her workload, but what about the other stuff? The other issue is timing. Finally, IF this is true then there is… some reckoning coming. It currently it is he said she said. Though I am unsure if ltt can fully come out to disprove things. If they do, they cancel culture will come out saying they are lying. I’d they dont, cancel culture will come out saying they are monsters. util further notice I am reserving judgement.