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Well, no, not yet. I'm still waiting for the advanced RMA. It was approved like a week and a half ago. They said it would be here within a week or so, but they said that I'd received an email when it was shipped with a tracking number and blah, blah, blah. Haven't received any emails. They have, however, sent me two customer support satisfaction surveys. They've sent me a 20% discount code for my next purchase with Western Digital. They sent me a, oh God, what was it, four emails altogether, none of them with anything. Oh, product registration emails. When they opened my original ticket and registered the warranty on the current drive, I've got two emails confirming that, the warranty registration. So, yeah, a bunch of emails from them, but no drive yet. So I'm still waiting on that. But I'm still confident that once I crack that old drive open, which I haven't done yet, because there's bushings in there, like little rubber bushings go on the corners of the drive itself, and there's some screws that mount the drive to the casing, and then there's some screws and little rubber grommets that mount the control board to the drive. So I don't want to lose any of those screws or rubber grommets or anything like that while I'm waiting for the new drive to come, so I've just left it intact for now. But I'm pretty confident once I chuck it, the term that people use for pulling actual hard drives out of those enclosures, I'm pretty confident that it's going to work. I've used the device now a few times to pull files off hard drives of multiple sizes and capacities from little rinky-dink laptop-sized SSDs all the way up to one full-sized 7200 RPM 3.5-inch drive, and it worked every time. But none of those drives were particularly bad, right? They were just inside computers that had outlived their usefulness or, in a couple of cases, a laptop that just wouldn't boot and a desktop that just wouldn't boot. I'm thinking faulty motherboards in both cases, but as soon as I connected those drives up, man, they spun right up. And this adapter is really cool because it comes with the little pigtails. You know how the older drives needed separate power? You know, they had that four-pin Molex power connector? This thing even came with that. It's a little thing you plug into the side of the adapter, and it gives full power, you know, two, three and a half inch rotating hard drive.