WD 12TB Helium drive heads replacement? (WD120EDBZ)

[SirForensic]

Hi,

I have a mechanical case with WD 120EDBZ-11B1HA0 and as all knows these new helium drives are almost impossible to work with current existing tools/techniques/technology.

As these helium drives are slowly coming more and more maybe someone might have a piece of knowledge if these drive head replacements are possible to do successfully.

PC3K doesn't have support for this helium drive and in my knowledge, after replacing the heads there is some kind of pressure sensor inside and values have to be between certain values to get a chance to spin up the drive.

Any suggestions about the steps to do with this drive or is there technology/knowledge yet on how to recover the data after head replacement?

TIA!

[pcimage]

I don’t know of anyone currently tackling these for physical issues

Digilab in Chicago I believe used to accept them but don’t anymore as far as I know, due to high parts costs, limited success and unrealistic expectations from clients.

[SirForensic]

It looks like these are "no-go" cases.

I found one DR company in Austria that's claiming they are able to recover data from Helium drives but I'm very doubtful they actually can...

Maybe in a few years, there will be more tools to work with these.

[ddrecovery]

I found one DR company in Austria that's claiming they are able to recover data from Helium drives but I'm very doubtful they actually can...

We have seen several companies 'claim' to be recovering them, but they all charge attempt fees upfront. Basically they are using the client drive (and data) to experiment with.