Question Small scratch on the PCB of my new HDD. Should I buy a new one ?

[Mac_O]

I just bought a new TOSHIBA 4TB HDD and when I opened the carton box I accidentally scratched the PCB board of the Hard Drive.

I am attached an image.
Will it be a problem ?
Will it work fine or I might face some issues ?

This HDD is going to work as a mirror for an external storage case.

Thank you in advance.

HDD IMAGE

 

[Lutfij]

Doesn't look like you've exposed the traces on the drive. I'd hook it up and see if that's showing up in BIOS and you're able to move(non consequential) data onto and off the HDD. By any chance did you run an NT Cutter along the package to produce that line/scratch?

 

[alceryes]

This just looks a scratch in the conformal coating. It doesn't look like it got to the substrate.
As @Lutfij said, see if it works. If it does don't worry about it.

 

[Mac_O]

Doesn't look like you've exposed the traces on the drive. I'd hook it up and see if that's showing up in BIOS and you're able to move(non consequential) data onto and off the HDD. By any chance did you run an NT Cutter along the package to produce that line/scratch?

The HDD was on the OEM silver foil which was scratched and when I removed it the PCB had this small scratches.
I am on a Macintosh computer and this HDD will be installed on an external HDD case with USB 3.0

 

[fzabkar]

This just looks a scratch in the conformal coating. It doesn't look like it got to the substrate.
As @Lutfij said, see if it works. If it does don't worry about it.

I agree.

If you have a multimeter, measure the resistance between the plated thruholes at each end of the thinnest copper trace. If it's 0 ohms, then you're OK.