Dead Maxtor Diamond plus 9 PCB

[Freakazoid]

Hello
I work with a Maxtor Diamond plus 9 which I found to have a bad PCB shorted. What I assume is that the CR200 (TVS?) Is dead.

What happens if I remove it? do I need to replace it? can i run the hard drive without it?

 

[pclab]

If the problems are the TVS, you can run the drive without them. However, if you want to keep the drive working on the client, I suggest you to replace them, since they are a barrier to avoid that a power surge don't go scorch the rest of the HDD.

 

[Freakazoid]

[post]15573[/post] If the problems are the TVS, you can run the drive without them. However, if you want to keep the drive working on the client, I suggest you to replace them, since they are a barrier to avoid that a power surge don't go scorch the rest of the HDD.

It`s just for data recovery. The TVS is shorted to ground.