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Seagate Portable HDD PCB diode

June 16th, 2021, 23:28

Hello everyone!
I would really appreciate anyone can point me which of these electronics on my seagate portable HDD PCB is the diode. Attached the photos of the PCB. Thank you for your help.

PCB: Seagate Portable Laptop HDD 1TB
PCB Serial no: 100720903
Attachments
PCB seagate 100720903 - back.jpg
PCB seagate 100720903 - front.jpg

Re: Seagate Portable HDD PCB diode

June 17th, 2021, 16:07

In the top right corner there's the Winbond chip, to the left a round coil (2R2), to the left of that coil the diode is the small black component, i believe.

Re: Seagate Portable HDD PCB diode

June 17th, 2021, 17:08

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/need-help-seagate-portable-hdd-pcb-diode-issue.3708560/#post-22354175

fzabkar has already answered this - I assume there was cross over due to the posting delay.
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