Hello
For my background you can have a look at my introduction thread if you like (https://www.data-medics.com/forum/hello-t2236.html)
I have a question about a typical kind of failed external drive that I see quite often nowadays. It's about 2,5" WD Elements drives (I have a WDBUZG0010BBK-04 just here on my desk) which all show the same behaviour:
The drives spin up normally (no suspicious noise) then keep spinning for about 1 or 2 minutes, then make one single loud click/squeak, spin down. And this all over again.
These drives don't show up directly in the OS. But they are recoginzable in the log of a Linux system, for example. ("spinnig up disk" etc.)
Is this a "usual" thing for the experts and does it have a clear and common cause? Is there any chance on correcting this "software-wise" or have they go to a lab?
I had probably like 5 or more of this kind brought to me during the last 6 - 12 months. (As described in my introduction thread I'm not a data recovery specialist [of course] but I offer my customers a check of their failed drives because in the majority of the cases it's a problem that I can solve with my limited knowledge. In the other cases I offer to redirect the disk to a lab, but a lot of my customers can't afford this so I'm always keen to learn something new and maybe being able to help one more customer.)
For my background you can have a look at my introduction thread if you like (https://www.data-medics.com/forum/hello-t2236.html)
I have a question about a typical kind of failed external drive that I see quite often nowadays. It's about 2,5" WD Elements drives (I have a WDBUZG0010BBK-04 just here on my desk) which all show the same behaviour:
The drives spin up normally (no suspicious noise) then keep spinning for about 1 or 2 minutes, then make one single loud click/squeak, spin down. And this all over again.
These drives don't show up directly in the OS. But they are recoginzable in the log of a Linux system, for example. ("spinnig up disk" etc.)
Is this a "usual" thing for the experts and does it have a clear and common cause? Is there any chance on correcting this "software-wise" or have they go to a lab?
I had probably like 5 or more of this kind brought to me during the last 6 - 12 months. (As described in my introduction thread I'm not a data recovery specialist [of course] but I offer my customers a check of their failed drives because in the majority of the cases it's a problem that I can solve with my limited knowledge. In the other cases I offer to redirect the disk to a lab, but a lot of my customers can't afford this so I'm always keen to learn something new and maybe being able to help one more customer.)