A Look Inside a Western Digital External Hard Drive From 2011

[@prauny]

I wonder, having seen the inside of one of these now, if you could swap out the hard drives to test them on one of these? On a working one obviously.

[@sfred]

Yes, I’ve swapped these around in the past.

[@PhilipStock-pm7ji]

The power supply maybe bad BUT if you have a older PC with SATA power and data connectors you could get the data off the hard drive maybe ?

[@sfred]

If it’s the usb interface board that’s bad then yes.