freezing a HDD
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tlarkin
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tossing your HD in the freezer is an old data recovery trick and deals with thermal dynamics on electronic componets. It is not a fix, it is a temporary solution to get data of a damage disk. Furthermore, if you have physical damage (ie bad platter) then freezing it won't do much.
Replace the HD, salvage data off the old one if you can.
Replace the HD, salvage data off the old one if you can.
The_Other_One
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I don't see how that could help...though I don't see it hurting it either.
yeah, that was more what I was thinking. Most of my failures have been hardware related. If you simply get a bad sector or something, normally they can be fixed by a low level format. Hmm...maybe I'll freeze some HDs and see how they come out
yeah, that was more what I was thinking. Most of my failures have been hardware related. If you simply get a bad sector or something, normally they can be fixed by a low level format. Hmm...maybe I'll freeze some HDs and see how they come out
I don't see how that could help...though I don't see it hurting it either.
yeah, that was more what I was thinking. Most of my failures have been hardware related. If you simply get a bad sector or something, normally they can be fixed by a low level format. Hmm...maybe I'll freeze some HDs and see how they come out
if they break, call up geek squad lol
Oh man.. Don't you guys know what heat and cold does? I'll give you an example..
When you drive over a bridge, have you ever noticed the thump thump.... thump thump.... thump thump.... as you go over it? If you look closely there are spaces between the bridge sections. The reason for that is to allow room for expansion when the bridge is heated and contraction when it's cooled. If it weren't for those the bridge would buckle and crack and eventually collapse.
The same principle works for the components in a HDD. That's why you freeze them.
When you drive over a bridge, have you ever noticed the thump thump.... thump thump.... thump thump.... as you go over it? If you look closely there are spaces between the bridge sections. The reason for that is to allow room for expansion when the bridge is heated and contraction when it's cooled. If it weren't for those the bridge would buckle and crack and eventually collapse.
The same principle works for the components in a HDD. That's why you freeze them.
tlarkin
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I don't see how that could help...though I don't see it hurting it either.
yeah, that was more what I was thinking. Most of my failures have been hardware related. If you simply get a bad sector or something, normally they can be fixed by a low level format. Hmm...maybe I'll freeze some HDs and see how they come out
well the trick works best if its a problem with the logic board on the HD. But yeah its never not worth to try espeically if you don't have back ups of your data.