pcimage wrote:
Older desktop drives yes, they are pretty resilient. Had one a while ago with head "skid marks" over large areas of the platter, but with 3 head swaps got about 70% of the clients important files

Newer drives, especially nasty 7mm laptop drives, not so!

Sean ,
Whats your take on the Now Toshiba branded drives .I have seem PC3K adding a few into toshiba Techno utility ,Which means a totally new architecture unlike hitachi .Infact they added one more model in Version 6.2 .Also Most older toshibas that get detected in pc3k using DLE series hitachi
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