So pissed right now

[ulaoulao]

(which is beyond my skill since it likely involved precision soldering) or to RMA it and get a new drive as a replacement..

- You would be surprised. I can say as therr are many kind of drives out there, Normal its a few screws and a funky connector for the cable cable. It certainly is work a shot.

[Zach]

Actually yeah it does look like a slide in connector. Just the solder joints on the connector where it physically connects to the drive is exposed so I figured I'd have to solder it..


Wouldn't know how to go about getting a PCB for cheap, or even making sure I got the correct one though..

[cibomatto2002]

I'm slow I understand now

[ulaoulao]

what is the exact sn, and model number to the drive?

You could try searching google for it, or a bad drive on ebay, or email the company.

[Zach]

Well I did e-mail Seagate. You have to RMA it to get a replacement drive.

Honestly its nothing I can't download again... but my UG ratio... oh god, my poor UG ratio.. It's gonna be some slow downloading, lol.

Barracuda 7200.11
ST31000340AS
P/N: 9BX158-303

[cloud4004]

Maybe you should start backing up your roms online?

[ulaoulao]

Here are some boards

http://www.ioffer.com/i/PCB-for-ST31...XISG-108402109




Maybe you can snag up one of theses

http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-Barracud...d=p3286.c0.m14


http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-Barracud...d=p3286.c0.m14

not sure what your fimW version is but here are 2 for 60

http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-ST310003...d=p3286.c0.m14

Maybe you should start backing up your roms online?

- And how is anyone going to back up 1tb of data on line? That is without paying too much for reasonable up and down.

[cloud4004]

- And how is anyone going to back up 1tb of data on line? That is without paying too much for reasonable up and down.

I don't know what resources he has or what he would be willing to invest in. I just know from my experience backing things up online has been a lot more solid than throwing my files on an external hd.

[Zach]

If money or resources weren't an issue, I'd just build a 10TB RAID 1 array. Obviously.

Backing up online is too much.. especially with an upload reasonably capped at 50 - 100Kb/sec

[TchuBacha]

Techinically Zach already has all his roms backed-up online. Its just a pain-in-the-arse to find them sometimes.