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Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years
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this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
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These things (and Seagate's) have the usb interface soldered on, so if the drivd dies, forget about the data, no way to connect to another usb adapter to try to recover. Granted, it's usually the drive that dies, but in these cases, you have a 100% rate of non recovery . Any other brand's are standard drives. My favorite are toshiba.
I solder new usb connectors and all manner of other connectors on to stuff all the time.
I’m at a 100% success rate getting data off stuff that just needs new connectors.
If you need data recovered, the literal best case scenario is that it’s just got a bad connector.
Soldering is not the problem, unless its smd or tiny, its getting a non standard usb interface.
you mean in the case of a dead USB ic or something or do you mean the USB port isnt standard?