Hello,

I had, for a while, collected PCBs off drives that had mechanically failed (bad sectors, head crash, etc) thinking that one day I would need one of them to recover someone's data off a drive where the PCB had outright failed (typically no power). It served me well a couple of times but I stopped doing it some time ago however and left them in a drawer. I am moving shortly and wanted to know if anyone was interested in them. I don't plan on typing in all of the model numbers. They range from 10GB-200GB and are a mix of WD, Maxtor, Segate, Fujitsu, IBM and Samsung. All are IDE. I also have two complete WD 500 GB SATA drives that have failed and are out of warranty: WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 Green Power, WD5000AAJS-32TKA0.

If anyone is interested they can have the whole lot for $30 plus actual shipping cost. I simply prefer to have them put to good use if possible otherwise I will have to take them to the local electronics dump.

Thank you for such a great forum. I came across it when looking for a utility to remap/recover bad sectors on a 15 year old Conner CFS420A hard drive that contained someone's genealogy data. The problem was there was little in the way of tools to deal with a pre-LBA hard drive. Ultimately I used a copy of Spinrite I forgot I had to make it readable enough to get the important files back.

Best regards,
-felipe

I forgot to mention each PCB is wrapped in an anti-static bag with a photocopy of the hard drive's face included. Many have the mounting screws as well.

-felipe

It seems that potential buyers like using PMs and my lack of clarity on shipping is leading to questions about the cost. I have received inquiries for Australia, Portugal, and Canada. It simply is whatever the US Postal Service Priority Mail flat rate box service costs. For international go to http://ircalc.usps.gov/, select your destination country and the Priority Mail 20lb medium box. It will show a list of rates. For delivery inside the US the cost is $10.70 to the lower 48 States. See http://ircalc.usps.gov/ for the details.

Thank you for your interest.
-felipe