Western Digital Recertified head swap

[PBernard]

I have a WD1200-00EVA0, DCM = HSBHCVJAA. This is a WD "recertified" unit. From my research "recertified" can mean that disk was originally a larger capacity unit and may have had a single faulty platter which has been disabled during the recertification. I presume the original capacity must be critical when choosing a head donor or just to use the last 5 digits from the DCM?

I have already searched the forums.

[beto]

Did u need this task for DR?

Its hard to get this task, because recertified, many times have been a disable head, and some times, its different the distribuition between your patient and donnor HDD fro example, i get a hdd WD600 wich has H0 disabled from factory after "recertified" , and donnors same MDL even recertified, they get H1 disabled, did u mean? Thats one of the problem, so translator would be different, like i said a Recertified Model, on my experience its hard to get a head swap,

Best Regards

Alberto