Ultra X3 Vs. Samsung Spinpoint

[Wat]

I was arranging some last minute things for my hardware to do overnight, it was dark, and I put one of the modular SATA power cables into my Ultra X3 backwards. That's very easy to do, despite the keyed shape. I turned the Ultra back on and booted. My Samsung terabyte seems very dead now!

Maybe someone here can explain what that would do to a hard drive, or if any amount of data recovery (home or professional) is possible. I'm wishing this would turn out to be a protect mode or something. Definitely not my top pick of hard drives to kill. It pretty much had every torrent I ever wanted to keep seeding.

[370forlife]

Sounds like its probalby fried pretty good.

If it didn't hurt the actuator and motor inside, you might be able to get a new control board thingy for it off ebay or something. Might be hard to find, and you would need a exact matching one.

[Tazz]

Well the connector doesn't have to go in all the way to short it out. I had two of the pins in one (connected the right way) cross and luckily it only fried the cable and the SATA plug on the drive... I was able to still use the drive after cleaning up the burnt spots on the connectors.

[ianm2]

the short story is you have put voltage/current into different parts of the drive...you may get away with it, but if it does fail shortly, and IS that vital, then yes buy a new drive and change the pcb over, got to be identical controller board...