Goodbye TB
A long time ago (2004?) I bought a LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 1 TB. At that time it was quite a huge hard drive (by size and capacity), biggest single disks were about 250 GB (given the size I supposed that the LaCie was made of 4 250 GB disks in some RAID-0 or JBOD array).
So five years later (last week) it died. But even now, losing 1 TB of data is a bit disappointing. Hopefully there was not much important data on it (I store important data on a RAID-5 array or on a TimeMachined part of my Mac).
So, what to do with a dead disk? Dismantle it of course.
First unscrew the back panel:
Push the content / pull the case:
Unscrew everything else:
So yes, there was 4 Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250 GB hard disks inside. I already tested 2 of them, one is dead, the other one is fine. I hope only one is dead so I will be able to reuse 750 GB of the original 1 TB.
In the overall I think it's the third hard drive dying this year. Last year it was two motherboards. Why electronic hardware is so unreliable lately? (and I try to do my best to take care of it but it looks like it's not enough, hardware is still failing at some point)
I still have somewhere an old Victor computer from the 80s (I can't find it on the internet, it's not a Victor 9000) and it's still working (at least last time I plugged it in).
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Hi Devon,
This was a long time ago (3 years ago) and I don't remember well but I think I didn't had major issues to take the Bigger Disk Extreme appart. I believe reassembling it should not be too difficult.
I didn't try myself, since I didn't had other disks to put in it I threw the enclosure away (didn't thought that some people might be interested in it)…
If you have drives that are supported it should work, but as you experienced, that kind of hardware is designed for a small set of supported hard drives. So I can't guarantee you that it would work but I think you should be able to mount it back together.