Replacing enclosure of an old Samsung External HDD

[Nick Black]

Ive read various articles and threads on how to replace an external HDD enclosure, but Ive never really encountered an issue like mine.

SO this is a 5 year old Samsung drive, and I need to bend the USB cable in a weird way to get the damn thing to work. It has around 400GB of my data(including many family pictures) and its very inconsistent and is very tiring to copy things out of it. Like other HDDs, I dont see the SATA port on in when I remove the enclosure, and Ive attached pictures;

https://ibb.co/bEL5rV
https://ibb.co/gNCJBV
https://ibb.co/daRpJA
https://ibb.co/bxfukq


Is my HDD done? Is there no way to replace the enclosure on this? Pretty sure the only damaged part is the USB connector as Ive replaced and tried many cables, and still the same issue persists.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

I've got 4 x seven year old WD external HDDs for multiple data backups, when one of them dies (which is yet to happen) I will simply replace it as I have done ever since I start using externals. It's not worth the hassle of trying to bring one back to life - - I've got no time for that and anyway I wouldn't be able to trust it.

With proprietary connection interfaces that they all have, I've got no time to mess with that. I just destroy the actual drive with a very heavy hammer outside, then bin it.