Water-Damaged WD MyBook Studio Edition II Quad Interface 6TB

[SennaSempre]

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing.

This hard drive would not power up when plugged into a 15" MacBook Pro but it did when plug into a 27" iMac using the same stock AC adapter. The power status with the 27" iMac has the front light blinking but no spinning of the platters.

I read that it could be a problem with the control board in the housing unit and to use a SATA-USB connector straight into the computer which I've done to no avail. I've tried this 3.3V pin tape-hack explained in Step 14 here -

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...and still nothing on both drives. I don't know what else I can do which is why I'm asking you. Some extra links to the exact model I have with the online manual and attached photos. Any advice is greatly appreciated, thank you.

Online Manual - User manual Western Digital My Book Studio II (English - 36 pages)

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II review: Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II

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Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 6TB Review

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6TB Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Review (WDH2Q60000)

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[SennaSempre]

If I bought a SATA Hot-Swap Docking Station (if they come set up for RAID 0 drives, I don't know?) would the drives sync up and work or would they not because the raid configuration may be stored in the PCB of the old housing - the WD MyBook Studio Edition II casing that it came with?

Also if I bought a new-used My Book Studio Edition II only to use the housing and pull out the new drives and replace them with my old drives...

I was told that I don’t want to install them into another My Book Studio Edition II chassis only for the new housing PCB to detect that there was a change of drives and that new housing PCB will “helpfully” wipe the partition information so I can use them as empties, loosing all of my data.

Would either or both of these 2 statements be true? Anyone have any experience with these particular RAID 0 setup WD drives?

 

[SennaSempre]

I don't think this forum works since its been 2 weeks with no advice. The only reply is my own 2nd question to keep this thread in focus somewhat but this is not an effective forum to assist users in need.

 

[Blue4130]

I don't think this forum works since its been 2 weeks with no advice. The only reply is my own 2nd question to keep this thread in focus somewhat but this is not an effective forum to assist users in need.

If there is no response, it is likely that no one has run into this same issue as you. If you check the rest of the forum, you will see that people are very willing to help out when they have valid and useful information.

My bit of advice, if the data is important to you, send it to a recovery service and next time, ensure that you follow proper backup procedures on data that is of value to you. 3-2-1 is your friend.

 

[tinfoil3d]

Does it power on at all(spin up)? Did you try some linux recovery livecd? I will avoid anything that is "black box" and only use linux, ideally read-only patched linux kernel(yeah, that's necessary if we're talking about some serious data).
I've read reviews for seagate(not wd) recovery service, they can only recover certain file types and onlyf it it spins up at all. Nothing fancy. If it's super valuable, you'd be using non-brand recovery service, but that's very likely $$. Please back up.

 

[SennaSempre]

hello yes it spins up and I'm testing out other drives with DMDE and DD Command before I run my recovery drives, but I can't see the already-copied sectors on the destination drive using DMDE, it's not there for some reason and I'm definitely sure I did it right, any ideas what could have happened?