I don't know if the controller board is married to the external drive but this still seems a better option than buying a donor since there are so many different ones on the market.
If it's a USB to SATA converter then probably not and it would be worth to try to connect the hard drive to another generic external enclosure to salvage the data as that kind of damage maybe was due to somebody tripping over the USB cable. But still your tutorials are one of the best ones to learn soldering skills 😉
That's some cool stuff.
Looks a lot better than wires.
I don't know if the controller board is married to the external drive but this still seems a better option than buying a donor since there are so many different ones on the market.
If it's a USB to SATA converter then probably not and it would be worth to try to connect the hard drive to another generic external enclosure to salvage the data as that kind of damage maybe was due to somebody tripping over the USB cable. But still your tutorials are one of the best ones to learn soldering skills 😉
Thanks Johnny. Good to hear from you!