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Cheap HDD Repair?

Naveronasis
By Naveronasis
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I have a 5tb HDD that has died, the data on it, worthless anyway. Is there a way to have the drive salvaged to use as a insecure dump drive for like a game library or temporary file shuffleing/something fun to play with? Budget is like......................................... 50 or less, at 75 I can just buy a 10tb used data center disk, was just trying to get this thing back on its feet rather than contributing to e-waste.

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Not likely in any way that it would be able to be trusted. Many times hard drive recovery is done they fix a drive, pull data off it and transfer to a new "reliable" drive. Your $50 would be spent on buying a donor drive to swap parts with in hopes that you got one with identical parts.  Then there is no guarantee you get it working and you still end up with one trash drive in the end (your parts drive).

 

I would just buy a new drive that you can trust. While unfortunate, you'll be money ahead in this case. 

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