ST33000651NS HDD Data Recovery Case Analysis

Patient HDD ID:
geonix (ST33000651NS)
Firmware G009
Heads and Platters: 5 platters and 10 heads
Family: MantaRay

Patient HDD Failure Symptoms:
Patient HDD was dead, no power, pcb had been changed with donor pcb 100611023 REV B, original rom was written to donor PCB
Data area was not accessed after PCB swap, data was encrypted

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As for this Seagate ST33000651NS dead hdd data recovery case, it is not enough to swap PCB simply to patient HDD, it has also encryption key stored in the Main chip, users need to swap the Main chip from the original dead PCB to donor PCB to decrypt the data.