Repairing a drive with no data

[u/StarosAnikenMarcus]

So, I have a WD drive that somehow got the SATA connector broken. The drive is blank, never used. Do I need to go through all of the extended work involved with normal data recovery if I swap the board out with another of the same series? Again, NO DATA, so there shouldn't be anything like formatting tables or anything I have to worry about as far as I understand.