WD Hard Drive Foam of Death? January 16, 2023 by Christopher Masto Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Mysterious 20 year old hard drive failure. source
dan anderson mentioned here https://youtu.be/Uk5F3rQNUkU?t=2079, that ESD foam can eat the legs off of components Reply
Since you are already that deep into it, I would go ahead with the ultrasonic cleaner. I have seen that help with corrosion on a board. Reply
I think it is more about the flux than the foam… I've seen other WD products without foam do this too… This also happened to a large batch of original x-boxes… Acidic flux decay… Reply
It must be warranty foam.
dan anderson mentioned here https://youtu.be/Uk5F3rQNUkU?t=2079, that ESD foam can eat the legs off of components
Since you are already that deep into it, I would go ahead with the ultrasonic cleaner. I have seen that help with corrosion on a board.
I think it is more about the flux than the foam… I've seen other WD products without foam do this too… This also happened to a large batch of original x-boxes… Acidic flux decay…