Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

[gtredx69]

Hi folks,

Can anyone help me, I think my PCB is fried and I am going to replace it. Only problem being is that the torx screws holding the board seem to be smaller han a T1. The screw diameter is 0.5 and point to point is like 0.3, 0.4.

Any ideas

Cheers

Gareth

[fzabkar · Accepted solution]

7200.11 drives use Torx 6 screws. Maybe yours are similar ...

[gtredx69]

These screws are really small, Torx 6 measues 1.70mm while hese screws measue 0.3mm.

[fzabkar]

That's a strange one. Could we see a photo? Have you tried a mobile phone toolkit?

FWIW, the user in the following thread used a Torx 6 to remove the PCB from an ST2000DL003:
http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/crawl_message?board.id=ata_drives&message.id=27685

Do you have a different model?

[gtredx69]

No you were right, I went down the street and bought a few Torx screws drivers £2.99 for a set of 5. Fitted great was able to remove it. Either the wiki sizing chart is wrong or I can't interpert it correctly but either way got it sorted. Thnks for the reply.