Water-Damaged WD MyBook Studio Edition II Quad Int

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   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 - 

...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.

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SennaSempre Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25 Jan 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Quote Reply Topic: Water-Damaged WD MyBook Studio Edition II Quad Int Posted: 27 Jan 2024 at 7:54pm
	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 - ...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.

SennaSempre Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25 Jan 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jan 2024 at 10:27am
	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 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25 Jan 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Feb 2024 at 12:18pm
	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.

Snaike Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Just a dude trying to keep the spam away Joined: 23 Jan 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9462	Quote Reply Posted: 06 Feb 2024 at 1:06pm
	Your assumption would be incorrect. This is an effective forum to assist users in need. However, in this case, you do not qualify as one of the 'users in need'. Let me explain. This is Digital Storm's forums. These forums are used by the customers of Digital Storm to talk about Digital Storm machines. This is where Digital Storm's fans/customers/allies hang out and chat. There are very, very few Digital Storm employee's that frequent these forums; usually just Alex, but some others have popped in here and there. I am not an employee even though I have a blue badge. Your question is regarding SATA drives in an Apple product. Where in the paragraph above say anything about Apple products? Your question, here, is akin to Senna driving his McLaren into the MotoGP's Ducati Lenovo team's pits for assistance. Again, this is an effective forum to assist users in need. Digital Storm users. Have a wonderful day.

SennaSempre Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 25 Jan 2024 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4	Quote Reply Posted: 18 Feb 2024 at 7:36pm
	ah ok, I thought Digital Storm was just a fancy name for the forum, I had no idea that it pertained to an actual machine.

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