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Hello Everyone,

i am looking for Donor drive for seagate ST1000LM035


Model: ST1000LM035
Part Number 1rk172-568
FW SBM3
WWN 5000C5009E5D2262
SITE WU
DOM 28 NOV 2016

Needs to replace head

let me know if you have compatible drive

This is Rosewood family, it's very difficult drive to work with even for pro tech.
Are you DR tech ?
What tools do you have?
Why do you want to swap heads?

Rosewoods are pretty bad. Limited firmware functionality. I've had 11 in my lab, 7 failed by themselves in 3 months or less after the customer purchased them, 9 had the platter already scratched. Only one was recoverable with a system file issue. I have no idea where the DR world is going if these things keep staying on the market.

can not agree more, it is hard to make a head replacement in Seagate, let alone Rosewoods

dunno why, i love them... perhaps because many hates them

pepe wrote:dunno why, i love them... perhaps because many hates them

+1
When we first saw these coming in they were 2016 models and most had catastrophic failure, so I hated them at first. It's just speculation, but I think Seagate may have improved the platters some time in late 2016 or early 2017. Almost every Rosewood we see has been dropped and I'm pretty sure we have recovered all but one dated 2017-2018.

Blizzard wrote:

pepe wrote:dunno why, i love them... perhaps because many hates them

+1
When we first saw these coming in they were 2016 models and most had catastrophic failure, so I hated them at first. It's just speculation, but I think Seagate may have improved the platters some time in late 2016 or early 2017. Almost every Rosewood we see has been dropped and I'm pretty sure we have recovered all but one dated 2017-2018.

In that case, I hope the good quality ones get into Australia soon as well.

Hermes wrote:Rosewoods are pretty bad. Limited firmware functionality. I've had 11 in my lab, 7 failed by themselves in 3 months or less after the customer purchased them, 9 had the platter already scratched. Only one was recoverable with a system file issue. I have no idea where the DR world is going if these things keep staying on the market.

agree. I have a few rosewood drive with bad translator, can't deal with it at moment cause I do not wanna risk it. is there any suggestions?
I saw someone said in this forum earlier that translator issue can be done easier now by using software, but not sure about it.

It depends on the issue of translator.
Usually doing a translator regen can result on data shift, so be careful with it.
First do a proper diagnosis of the problem. I find some that the problem is a bad sys file.

pclab wrote:It depends on the issue of translator.
Usually doing a translator regen can result on data shift, so be careful with it.
First do a proper diagnosis of the problem. I find some that the problem is a bad sys file.

Is there any general solution to fix this issue regardless different HDD status.
I have limit knowledge nor that experienced in data recovery, how should we do.

General solution is to outsource it to somebody who knows how to do it.
Without knowledge you will screw it up, from where there may not be a way back even for an experienced dr specialist.

Sorry, but no one button solution exists in the DR field.

pepe

I'll have to agree with Pepe. Too many hard drives we receive in the lab that have been tampered with beyond repair. Don't experiment with the customers data on the drive, it might be very important to someone.

pepe wrote:dunno why, i love them... perhaps because many hates them

I love the firmware challenges of Seagates and let's face it they keep most of us in business.

ddrecovery wrote:

pepe wrote:dunno why, i love them... perhaps because many hates them

I love the firmware challenges of Seagates and let's face it they keep most of us in business.

I love rosewoods

If it's firmware sure, they really separate boys from men But if it's scratched platters like most of the ones that I get then nothing can be done.

pepe wrote:General solution is to outsource it to somebody who knows how to do it.
Without knowledge you will screw it up, from where there may not be a way back even for an experienced dr specialist.

Sorry, but no one button solution exists in the DR field.

pepe

earnest suggestion. i am outsourcing to ask whether anyone have solution for sure.
I really wanna to upgrade my skills in DR comparing to other competitors, i heard from my customer some DR specialist they can do it.

pclab wrote:It depends on the issue of translator.
Usually doing a translator regen can result on data shift, so be careful with it.
First do a proper diagnosis of the problem. I find some that the problem is a bad sys file.

It must be a bad sys file to cause translator issue, can you please tell me which sys file you found problem.

Is there any general solution to fix this issue regardless different HDD status.

in my interpretation you asked for a general solution that works on all cases regardless of hdd status, ie. the problem.
I can only see 2 ways:
-finding someone able to treat it properly (it looks like we are quite a few loving rosewoods)
-doing the hard part of the research and find it out for yourself in each different case.

In my experience every time i laid back thinking i got to know something the next similar case posed a different problem with all its challenges. Most of them cannot be done mechanically.

pepe

pepe wrote:

Is there any general solution to fix this issue regardless different HDD status.

in my interpretation you asked for a general solution that works on all cases regardless of hdd status, ie. the problem.
I can only see 2 ways:
-finding someone able to treat it properly (it looks like we are quite a few loving rosewoods)
-doing the hard part of the research and find it out for yourself in each different case.

In my experience every time i laid back thinking i got to know something the next similar case posed a different problem with all its challenges. Most of them cannot be done mechanically.

pepe

that make sense, experience is crucial. I appreciated