Dying 1 TB External HDD

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I have a years-old, 1 TB Fantom Drives external hard drive that has been dying for more than a year. It has gotten to the point that I can access the contents for about 5 minutes after I turn it on, then it drops offline and won't come back for at least several hours. I suspect a capacitor on the internal RAID board is going bad.

Tonight, I took the drive apart, to confirm my suspicions of its organization. It is indeed composed of 2, 500 GB hard drives, connected to a controller board. I would expect it would be configured in RAID 0, meaning striping across both drives. I connected one of the drives to my computer, and was able to see the drive when I spun it up, but could not access its table structure (as I expected). I'm hoping I'm correct about FD using a standard drive storage arrangement, and not some funky proprietary arrangement.

What is a good, inexpensive RAID controller that I could use to power up these drives and maybe salvage them? I might head down to Fry's Electronics on Monday and see what they have, too.

[Rson]

Ohhhhh, treading murky water here......

you probably need to find out what controller was running the original drives. You might be able to hook them to a MOBO that as a controller and load them up (my MOBO and all the ones I build have 2 raid controllers)

What brand/model was the original?

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Originally Posted by Rson

Ohhhhh, treading murky water here......

you probably need to find out what controller was running the original drives. You might be able to hook them to a MOBO that as a controller and load them up (my MOBO and all the ones I build have 2 raid controllers)

What brand/model was the original?

It is this guy, here:

Fantom Drives G-Force MegaDisk 1TB USB 2.0 / IEEE 1394a / 1394b External Hard Drive MDC1000

I found an external hard drive dock that can run two SATA drives in RAID, and it costs only about $30. Some of the feedback on the dock is highly negative, saying that the dock caused the loss of all data on the drives.

Cavalry CAHDD Series USB Dual-Bay Dock With RAID Feature EN-CAHDD2B-D