On the top side the socket is an SMD type with 10 pins soldered directly to the tracks. Inspecting the socket a little closer you will notice that it has a metal cover which holds the body of the socket and has four through hole tabs which are soldered to one side of the board. Watch also the plastic sheet which acts as an insulator and protector. The PCB has some contact points which mate with spring loaded contacts on the drive so watch its orientation as you remove it. If you do go looking for the trash can or marvel at your new door stop. DO NOT get confused and attempt to take the drive lid torx screws out.
This is held in place by Phillips type screws. The socket is pretty much masked by the drive so its best to unscrew the pcb from the drive. Now I have to say before you read on, you will need a good pair of eyes or at least a strong magnifying glass or even the mag glass and light above. Now these drives have come down in price a lot and you can pick one up on Ebay for about £30 but hey ho lets have a look inside, it might be a quick dab of solder round the loose socket and bob's your uncle.if only!įirst up lets get him out of his jacket. When it arrived I plugged it in and ,yes you have guessed it.same as before. I dutifully ordered one from Amazon and waited for it to arrive. Then I noticed the random dialog boxes asking if I wanted to format the drive and error messages from the USB driver telling me that the device "might not have installed correctly" Fiddling with the cable at the device end brought it back intermittently so I thought may be time for a new cable. I first noticed the problem when using the drive with the computer randomly dropping the USB port and the drive disappearing from explorer. Personally I think the drive should have a hard wire to USB plug rather than the socket but I digress.
This I think was my first mistake although was always conscious of maximum insertion counts for any type of plug like these and just liked the idea of minimising the pluggery. It has one of those 10 pin double plug/socket affairs and I used to cart around in my laptop bag with the cable attached ready for action. The drive was originally supplied with a short USB 3 cable which plugs into the side of the drive. With some USB sticks if the drive gets corrupted it refuses to be read and will only let you format the drive, damn infuriating sometimes.Still, not something my trusty M3 would suffer from, or so I thought. One of the things I liked about it was that you could be rough with it by unplugging from a PC without having to worry about drive corruption etc. Its only a Terabyte but was a welcome gift a couple of years ago.
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