Desperate for WD 120 please look

[golfcart]

Hi all, my RAID array just failed

The controller board on one of the drives WD1200BB burnt up. I'm seeking another to try and recover my lost data. Please take a look at any 120 WD's you have laying around and see if they are similar to mine. I'm attaching a scan of my dead drive. I have 2 more but both are different revisions

Please let me know if you can help. Thanks.

[HeadBand]

you wont be able to recover your data if you are only using 1 of the drives but you will need another one if you are planning on using the array with the old drive that didnt fail

[stant093]

cant you RMA it?

[EpyonMelee]

what is raid?

[John Prophet]

RAID 1 or 0?

[Christian-Comp]

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

[golfcart]

I have one good drive and one drive with a bad board. If I swap it with a good board, I *might* get my data back. I'm willing to take that risk. Anybody have one they want to sell?

[The_Shooter]

I have a WD 120GB HD

Here are the Numbers for it

Drive Parameters: LBA 234441648
S/N: WMACM2029317
MDL: 22CAA0
Date: 26 FEB 2002
DCM: DSFACV2CA

I dont know if thats all you need to know about it. Also, this is my primary drive.

[peterwilkes]

Isn't the idea of RAID to protect data if one of the drives goes down? I know it depends on which type of RAID you use.

This is why off site, up to date backups are still important. I hope you manage to get the data back though as I once remeber where I work the off site managed backups failed.

RMA is recomended, onece you remove the board, you can't RMA the drive as you will have voided the warranty.

[Ryanoffski]

I don't know if you should RMA. if you were to RMA, wouldn't they just send a refurbed HD back, not necessarily the one you sent in?