[DM-MUG] Internal Hard Drives Shopping

[Bryan Baker]

I'd think any kind of enclosure would lower your usable time by  
trapping the heat the drive produces inside it. I think this might be  
an ideal application for the "universal" cables that (iirc) newer and  
weibetech sell that adapt just about any internal format (ide/sata  
variants anyway) to USB2 or firewire.


On Feb 1, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:17 PM, CW Smith <cwsmith7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> • Put the HD in a Ziplock back to keep frost from forming on the  
>> drive and
>> to keep condensation from accumulating when it comes out
>> • Freeze overnight (12 hours or so) to assure uniform temperature
>> throughout. If you have a deep freeze in your basement, use that  
>> instead of
>> your kitchen freezer
>> • Keep the HD in its Ziplock back as you attach it to your external  
>> case or
>> drive dock (not inside the computer), again to keep condensation from
>> accumulating
>> • Attempt recovery while the drive is still COLD, giving you more  
>> time
>> before the bearings in the spindle heat up and seize again
>
> I've done this, it worked. You don't have long so make sure you're
> ready. You may want to do a test run of the software recovery on a
> good hard drive to ensure you have every thing you need at hand and
> know the procedure. in my case I didn't wait 12 hours (probably 3
> hours) and got 2 - 3 minutes of use out of the drive.
>
> I did not have the luxury of a USB drive so maybe you could make
> better use of the time by putting the drive into the USB enclosure
> before freezing it so that when you're ready you just have to plug the
> usb port into an already running PC. That saves you the 45 seconds for
> the computer to boot up plus the time to hook up the cords and stuff.
>
>
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