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Templis

Post subject: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:10

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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Hi,
Yesterday went home and attached external HDD to power, but no effect, just a smell.. I examined the power suply, found a gap, opened it and found 3 elements cutted of by radiator, that's grounded. So, i attached the HDD to PC, pressed ON button, no effect. turned just the PC's power suply on mannually, after attaching just HDD, no effect. Turned on Power suply and attaced the HDD, the power turned off. By examining the HDD, found a small gap in a black square form element with two legs, close to power input, that connects ground other plate.
So my question is, if there's a hope to bring the HDD back to life by my self and your help? Is it possible to find matching plate and replace with it?
S/N: 9QF5ZVM4
ST33020620A
P/N: 9BJ04G - 305
FIRMWARE: 3.AAE
DATECODE: 08016
SITE CODE: TK
Product of Thailand
There are a lots of Photos, that ments me a lot and need to rescue them!

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:15

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Location: UK

Remove this element, just snip it off.

Your drive will almost certainly work again long enough to get data off.

Then throw it away, don't trust it again.

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:18

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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pcimage wrote:

Remove this element, just snip it off.

Your drive will almost certainly work again long enough to get data off.

Then throw it away, don't trust it again.

Sure?
A quite big element, about 5x2mm. Is this a resistor? maybe need to put a wire in its place?

Sorry for my english!

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drc

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:20

Joined: August 12th, 2008, 13:11
Posts: 3235
Location: USA

Search the forum for TVS, you'll find plenty of info about it.

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:31

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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pcimage wrote:

Remove this element, just snip it off.

Your drive will almost certainly work again long enough to get data off.

Then throw it away, don't trust it again.

It spinns! TNX! Now Need a fast Data recovery!

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 19:54

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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pcimage wrote:

Remove this element, just snip it off.

Your drive will almost certainly work again long enough to get data off.

Then throw it away, don't trust it again.

How should I operate with hdd? Use it slowwly (turn off for a while) or use it in a cold place? What are the recomendations? Now i can access the data, backing up some primary data!

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networkpc3000

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 20:23

Joined: December 16th, 2007, 10:26
Posts: 1151

can you post PIC?

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 20:40

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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networkpc3000 wrote:

can you post PIC?

Sorry, bad quality.. tomorrow will be better..
I circled the place, where was this element..

Attachments:

hdd.jpg [ 125.65 KiB | Viewed 10001 times ]

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 20:53

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
Posts: 11

That was it..
All data I needed were saved to a safe place..
The HDD disapeared from My Computer, I turned it OFF, then ON and blue smokes came of the HDD.. So it's officially dead, but lucky saved the data! TNX again! :mrgreen:

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drc

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 18th, 2009, 22:25

Joined: August 12th, 2008, 13:11
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Location: USA

That component protects the rest of the PCB from excessive voltage... I might start to be concerned about your power supply.

The drive works fine without it, but you could think of it as similar to a fuse. The fact that whatever blew the TVS then blew the PCB indicates to me that you have a power problem.

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Templis

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 19th, 2009, 4:38

Joined: January 18th, 2009, 18:45
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Ok, I'll take a serious test of power suply!

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Seagate Baracuda ST3320620A burned element

Posted: January 19th, 2009, 15:07

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Glad it worked out for you!

Agree with drccsc, sounds like you have a dodgy/poor quality PSU.

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