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HDD with unpopulated pads

Zeon01
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That's probably some sort of debug connector they use during development/testing and then remove once it goes into mass production

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I have this 1TB HDD from my laptop from a year ago and i just noticed these unpopulated rads on bottom of the drive. Was there meant to be a cache chip or something there? and if so if could get the correct value resistors and a cache chip would it improve the performance?

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That's probably some sort of debug connector they use during development/testing and then remove once it goes into mass production

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Understood. I dont know as much about these things as i should... Thankk you for the assistance before I went and broke something,

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Often times, HDD boards are manufactured in a generic style, so multiple vendors can buy the boards and customize them as needed. It's possible the blank chip was for a different drive, so no worries, it's not supposed to be there.

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