Hitachi HTS545050A7E380 head swap

[jwargo]

I have a 500GB Hitachi that needs a head swap. This drive was originally purchased as an external G-Drive. The drive info is listed below. Thus far, locating a donor for this drive has been pretty challenging. Matching the MLC has been the main issue. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions for places to look for donor drives, or if there are any other MLC codes ( or other drives at all) that would be compatible for a head swap with this patient?

Drive info -

Model: HTS545050A7E380
P/N: 0J11285
MLC: DA4334
Date: OCT-11
Country: Thailand

Thanks

[dobrevjetser]

Hitachi Arm. Forget it. Even the best pro amongst us sweat blood and tears to recover these.

Dobre

[Nick_CT]

Why are you so concerned about MLC?

Was this drive dropped? Every one of these I've seen come in for recovery has been dropped with media damage.

[hhddrec]

This is a hard case.

Comomly Hitachi drivers makes Scraces into platers, if not experimented with head exchage contat with local pro.

bye