Unhappy user plugged in wrong power supply to his Free Agent backup drive and fried it. Smells horrible after I forcibly removed it from the case. (those things are a pain to open).

Is it possible to remove/cut the fried component in the bottom right and get the data off this drive?

Likely so, hopefully there are no other issues

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My reading of the forum tells me this is a TVS diode?

Since it is crispy burnt and I can't read the numbers on it - does anyone know what to replace it with?

Indeed tvs. If you just want to extract the data and will no longer care about the drive possibly getting damaged at a later time, then you can just remove the burned tvs. But if you want to enable protection on the drive again, then you need to solder a new tvs. If you are going to solder a new one, then make sure you remove the burnt one cleanly. You can find such diodes on digikey website I think. Someone else on the forum will likely be able to give you more store names...

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An SMBJ12A will do the job. Make sure the striped end (cathode) connects to the +12V supply.

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