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WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 10th, 2017, 19:51

I have never seen a platter with this type of damage. Its almost like the failing heads were in some sort of rhythm.
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Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 10th, 2017, 20:20

ddrecovery wrote:I have never seen a platter with this type of damage. Its almost like the failing heads were in some sort of rhythm.


:shock: :shock: :shock:

Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 10th, 2017, 20:56

I had one of those a few months back. I hate making those phone calls :(
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Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 11th, 2017, 5:21

Is the damage just on the top platter or on all platters?

Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 11th, 2017, 8:33

I've seen damage like this a couple times. Usually from a failed RAID member in a server that's never shut down. Obviously, it was running for quite some time after it failed.

Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 11th, 2017, 17:25

data-medics wrote:I've seen damage like this a couple times. Usually from a failed RAID member in a server that's never shut down. Obviously, it was running for quite some time after it failed.

+1

Re: WD Platter Damage Pattern

October 11th, 2017, 17:42

sourcerer wrote:Is the damage just on the top platter or on all platters?

If the client doesn't want the drive back, I will let you know.
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