I saw a post here suggesting replacing a burned circuit board on a hard drive in order to recover the data. I have a visible burns on both circuit boards. The two drives were running a Stripe RAID and then a surge burned their circuit boards? Do you think the data will still be recoverable by replacing the circuit boards with new ones? Is the circuit board ROM going to relate one drive to the other since data is split between the two drives in a stripe RAID? I am trying to find out if it's worthed to buy the circuit boards at all. The data I had on those drives was useful but not critical.

if you can get the circuit boards cheap, it might be a fun project to try. otherwise i would just suggest backing up your data next time. ESPECIALLY if you are using Raid 0 (striped), where the failure of either hard drive will break the partition and render data from both disks inaccessable.

You need to have the SAME EXACT controller board. Not just off the same model drive. I wouldn't waste my money if I were you. If both controller circuit boards are burned there is a good chance the innards are also fried. If you cared about the data you wouldn't have used RAID 0 in the first place.

"If you cared about the data you wouldn't have used RAID 0 in the first place." yup! "If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions" - Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) in Pulp Fiction