Bridge board swap on WD Essentials 2TB usb3

[robbill]

(This was flatbed scan for reference only!)

Spontaneous failure of ext3 formatted 2TB. No password, obviously.

I know there are various reports of success of board swaps to recover data. Has anyone any info or experience with a board swap on this model?

The bridge board ID is 4061-705094-0001 rev 13R

It's different to the others I've seen, possibly because USB3.

The data on the drive is not crucial, and it's going into a QNAP TS219 II after. I'll buy the second drive later - prices have doubled since I bought this unit last August (£66/$100/€80)

[drc]

failure

Be more specific

[robbill]

Wasn't dropped.
Was plugged into a Netgear WNDR3700 as a pseudo-NAS.

Powers up fine, then goes into cycles of seeking.

Won't mount.

Identifies correctly with lsusb and other drive utilities but nothing will read from it - I/O or read errors reported. Tried rewriting the MBR and partition table, same symptom - I/O error. Will not image - same symptom - read error.

Haven't checked power adaptor voltage yet.