Hi
First thanks for this great forum.
After a steep learning curve the last week and a lot of reading I need to ask for your input.
I had an external drive enclosure with a backup drive. Then, as usual, at a certain point it just died.
I removed it from the enclosure and tried it in my pc and in my Sharkoon drive bay.
No success.
Next step I took was to order a "similar" pcb and changed it.
The behaviour in the drive bay changed, but still no spin up.
Now after some days of "testing" it at least spins up with the new pcb, but it is not recognized from the pc.
So I entered the next level and did a lot of reading.
I measured as described here:
viewtopic.php?p=166418#p166418And then I looked at those:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/HD204UI_TVS.jpgAnd it seems that the 12V is broken, as I measured a very low resitance with the 200 Ohm setting.
Now my question - under the assumption the data is ruined anyway.
Is it worth to spend the time to fix this 12V link in case, that the drive could spin up again with the "old" PCB and is then maybe recogized again?
And what would be the correct TVS to solder there?
Thanks in advance
Christian