Just Another Hang-Out: Because Unilateral Decisions Matter

[Kouen Hasuki]

Nope.

Sounds like the controller board may be faulty.

You got options however. You might be able to find the same model drive's PCB on eBay (or a faulty drive with damaged platters inside the PCB would still be good) and switch it that's been known to recover drives in the past but will void warranty.

Or you could RMA it to Samsung for replacement but they wont try to recover the data (providing it still has some warranty left). They normally take it in plug it in to make sure its really dead and then send you a refurbished drive (at least in my experience with Seagate that's what happens)