May 7th, 2018, 19:43
May 7th, 2018, 20:12
If I sent this to a data recovery lab, would you be able to get all the data back?
I dont understand why its a sin to open up the hard drive in a non cleanroom environment. Cant you just take the platters out and clean them?
May 7th, 2018, 20:23
RalphSprint wrote:
In opening the hard drive up...did the dust and my fingers rubbing all over the platter give it any kind of ESD damage?
If I sent this to a data recovery lab, would you be able to get all the data back? I dont understand why its a sin to open up the hard drive in a non cleanroom environment. Cant you just take the platters out and clean them?
May 7th, 2018, 20:27
HaQue wrote:Seems like a troll, but i'll bite.
ESD is electro static discharge.
a charge builds up and discharges into electronics of your drive. It is a very random thing, you might play with drives dicarding any safety precautions and you may or may not damage drives.
what you are talking about is plain old contamination/dirtying or physical damage.
when you rub your shoes on nylon carpet and touch metal and go "oh! damn!" thats what ESD is.If I sent this to a data recovery lab, would you be able to get all the data back?
every drive different, but obvioously you decrease your chances every time you degrade work environment.I dont understand why its a sin to open up the hard drive in a non cleanroom environment. Cant you just take the platters out and clean them?
platters can be cleaned - but experienced people still need to be extremely careful.
to understand why - the tolerences in a drive are down to the microns, thousandths of a mm. 1 speck of dust 1/10th the diameter of a human haircaught between the head and the platter can cause a cascading efect of damage. think of a stone under a shopping trolley wheel.
I dont accept this info is hard to find, as in this forum it is discussed many times.
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