Fascinating, thanks for the vid Aussie! I came here trying to discover the brandname of the RAID controller in my WD Mybook - didn't get it but learned stuff nonetheless. Sorry about your injury! Cheers, Brian.
Best of luck with your quest to find the brand name of the controller. I've long since learned to clip the fresh pointy tips off those spudgers, do not like that happening again!
@@pldaniels, it's been many years since this video making those controller boards unavailable. Do you have any idea of the part number for the small power controller so I can order one from Mouser? Furthermore... why the hell would they do this? It doesn't protect the user from someone who steals the drive. It doesn't even stop someone from scavenging the HDD for use in another computer (minus the preexisting data). The only thing their encryption does seems to be to make the data useless once the board fries. It's infuriating. I have a decade of stuff on my HDD and I need it!!!! Thank you for your time.
Thank you so much Paul for posting this awesome video! I was wondering why my disk doesn't mount. Now I know it's getting encrypted by default. I am now waiting for my new power supply and hopefully, the controller board doesn't break. Do you know if I am using the same type of controller board from a second-hand drive to power my original disk, will the data get decrypted successfully? Thanks again!
Is the encryption done at the hardware level using the chip or with the help of a software? There is an in-house security software in the disk itself that asks us if we want to secure our data. If we don't secure it using the software and our chip is fried in the future, is it possible to plug the hard drive in another external convertor and use it?
1. it's done at the hardware level 2. there's no software configurability aspect, and you can't choose the key (it's not derived from a password or anything, just hard coded and the same for all drives) so there's no security benefit 3. no, the whole point of this encryption is vendor lock in, as far as i can tell here is a paper that goes into detail: cyberside.net.ee/docs/1002_GotHwCryptoOnTheInSecurityOfASelf-EncryptingDriveSeries.pdf
Hi Paul, I am your subscriber. I dropped my hard disk drive (4TB) I want to repair/recover all my Files from it I am willing to pay just to recover my files. How can I send it To You? Can u give your Facebook Page for you to send me your address? BTW, I got 2 more drives that I wanted to be repair/recover the files too. I watched the videos from your playlist and I know you can fix/do it :)
Fascinating, thanks for the vid Aussie! I came here trying to discover the brandname of the RAID controller in my WD Mybook - didn't get it but learned stuff nonetheless. Sorry about your injury! Cheers, Brian.
Best of luck with your quest to find the brand name of the controller. I've long since learned to clip the fresh pointy tips off those spudgers, do not like that happening again!
@@pldaniels, it's been many years since this video making those controller boards unavailable. Do you have any idea of the part number for the small power controller so I can order one from Mouser?
Furthermore... why the hell would they do this? It doesn't protect the user from someone who steals the drive. It doesn't even stop someone from scavenging the HDD for use in another computer (minus the preexisting data). The only thing their encryption does seems to be to make the data useless once the board fries. It's infuriating. I have a decade of stuff on my HDD and I need it!!!!
Thank you for your time.
@@BrendanClements this project seems to be of some help these days -
github.com/andlabs/reallymine
Hi Paul, can you please let me know if what was the second chip you have replaced and this is available in market ? I can read 3R=U09 on it !
Thank you so much Paul for posting this awesome video! I was wondering why my disk doesn't mount. Now I know it's getting encrypted by default. I am now waiting for my new power supply and hopefully, the controller board doesn't break. Do you know if I am using the same type of controller board from a second-hand drive to power my original disk, will the data get decrypted successfully? Thanks again!
How much would you charge to repair this type of problem?
Typically $229 + media storage costs
@@pldaniels that is very reasonable, right around here they charge 400$ up. I have to pay to get my baby girl vdo in there back.
Is the encryption done at the hardware level using the chip or with the help of a software? There is an in-house security software in the disk itself that asks us if we want to secure our data. If we don't secure it using the software and our chip is fried in the future, is it possible to plug the hard drive in another external convertor and use it?
1. it's done at the hardware level
2. there's no software configurability aspect, and you can't choose the key (it's not derived from a password or anything, just hard coded and the same for all drives) so there's no security benefit
3. no, the whole point of this encryption is vendor lock in, as far as i can tell
here is a paper that goes into detail:
cyberside.net.ee/docs/1002_GotHwCryptoOnTheInSecurityOfASelf-EncryptingDriveSeries.pdf
Hi Paul, I am your subscriber. I dropped my hard disk drive (4TB) I want to repair/recover all my Files from it I am willing to pay just to recover my files. How can I send it To You? Can u give your Facebook Page for you to send me your address?
BTW, I got 2 more drives that I wanted to be repair/recover the files too. I watched the videos from your playlist and I know you can fix/do it :)