I let the smoke out of my external hard drive

[Flieger]

I fell your pain. Just hope you do not need the clean-room service.

[BlueSideUp]

Dave thanks for the advice. I assume the 22 pin connection between the logic board and the drive is where the information is transferred. It appears the smoke came from this connection. I'll post pics once I get on a normal computer.

[azasadny]

When you see the price for the data recovery, you'll wish you backed up your data...

[RWebb]

does it look like this?