12-03-2009, 07:03 PM
Putting a dead hard drive in the freezer?
It can work on some types of hard drive failure because the cold contracts the metal parts inside - heads and platters - and taking it out of the freezer and having it run heats it back up. That contraction and expansion of the parts is apparently enough to get whatever was stuck, unstuck. That's my understanding of it anyway. All I know is it worked.
It can work on some types of hard drive failure because the cold contracts the metal parts inside - heads and platters - and taking it out of the freezer and having it run heats it back up. That contraction and expansion of the parts is apparently enough to get whatever was stuck, unstuck. That's my understanding of it anyway. All I know is it worked.