Hey Everyone, I made a fatal mistake by swapping out my powersupply in my NAS without swapping the SATA power cables and ended up shorting 3 of my 12TB drives. They don’t power up. Taking a look at the PCB, nothing is fried or burned. With this diagram from another thread: [TVS_diodes_fuses] Le…

There are no shorts, so you should most probably be OK. Just deal with the fuse, that’s all. I recall two similar cases at Tom’'s Hardware. One person recovered all his drives by flowing a blob of solder over the 5V fuses. The other person was able to recover all but one. If you run into further p…

Shorted WD 12TB - Help Making sense of TVS/Fuse Readings

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fzabkar January 16, 2025, 4:16am 11

What does this mean? The fuse should read 0.0 ohms. The diode reading should ideally go over-range on the 200 ohms scale. If the diode is measuring close to 0 ohms, then it is shorted.

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