https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/planned-obsolescence-hard-drives/ Professional Data Recovery Services Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.7 https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/planned-obsolescence-hard-drives/#comment-991 Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:31:26 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5946#comment-991 […] In My Book external drives, the very same USB-SATA bridging dongle that can so easily break (see our guest blog on planned obsolescence in external hard drives) also handles on-the-fly […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/planned-obsolescence-hard-drives/#comment-990 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:21:04 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5946#comment-990 […] drives have a dongle that connects to the drive’s SATA port, with a USB port on the other end. Sometimes, the dongle, not the hard drive, has failed, turning your external drive into a paperweigh…. And sometimes you can just crack open the casing, unplug the hard drive, and get your data […]

]]> https://www.gillware.com/hard-drive-data-recovery/planned-obsolescence-hard-drives/#comment-989 Thu, 17 Aug 2017 14:13:59 +0000 https://www.www.gillware.com/?p=5946#comment-989 […] A simple external hard drive—like, say, a Western Digital My Book—has a few failure points. First of all, you have all of the failure points from the hard drive itself. You have the control board, spindle motor, firmware, hard disk platters, and read/write headstack. On top of that, the USB-SATA bridging dongle in the external hard drive also represents two possible failure points. Either the dongle’s circuit board itself can fail, or the USB port can come loose or break off. […]

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