That is possible and I have done it myself when I blew up a hard disk PCB.
There could be a slight problem with that if either of the two hard disks has detected bad blocks, the hard disk may store bad block re-mapping details in the flash chip on the PCB. Even if either of them has done this you'll probably get most data back though. A lot more than with no working PCB.
-- Andrew. On 01/06/14 19:23, Victor Churchill wrote:
I can't offer to do the forensic job myself but I did see somebody blog once that if it is the PCB that has failed, and if you can get hold of an identical drive, then it's possible to swap over the electronics and access the data in that way (and immediately write it to a backup of course!)
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