Well today was eventful :)

I am currently building a NAS and found a guy on reddit who was selling a bunch of hard drives. “Well ain’t that perfect!” I said to myself. He was selling 16TB drives for about $12 a TB and I was able to talk him down to $10 per TB. He sent them in the mail same day and I received the package two days later (today). I ran to the door and ripped open the package like a kid during christmas. Started loading the drives into their bays and it was smooth sailing until I got to the final drive. The final drive as I slid it in “bounced” back when it made contact with the sata port. I pulled the drive back and inspected and low and behold the power pins were mangled!

The guy was nice enough to refund the drive, but I was not going to give up there!

I called around to some of the different computer shops around here, but for some reason none of them wanted to touch it. I just wanted someone to try to ease everything back in place and see if the drive could be recognized. That had me a little worried… so I went ahead and threw the drive away. Psyke! I grabbed some tweezer and my magnifying glass setup for soldering and massaged the bent connector back “straight”. Once that was straightened out there where 5 pins that wer not in place, I used my tweezers to grab the end of them and bend them back in place. Everything was looking great, so I put it in an enclosure and it slid right in. I was a little worried about it shorting out so I did not power it on yet and asked some of my co-workers for some advice. One was adamant that he would not even plug it in for fear of fire hazard and the other said he’d go for it. Well I already had it in and “momma ain’t raise no bitch!”.

I powered on the enclosure and waited for the “magic” smoke to appear. Nothing. No pops. Then the drive started to spin up and I head windows ding. Drive detected. Smiles.

So currently I’m running a disk scanner on all the drives to make sure there aren’t any problems. Currently %3 done at time of writing.

Oh and I’m trying to add a wallpaper. Not sure if I like it.