helpdisc wrote:
I am glad someone mentioned it. Would you think we would make useless tool?
No! I think that everyone is happy about the HDD Surgery tools. And the Platter Stand is one of your latest products. And before I buy this product, I'd like to know, how I can use it. And the common state of knowledge is, that you can't twist the platters against each other or you are going to loose all of your data. And that's why we are putting tape on the platter side, when we are doing a platter swap.
As I saw here in the thread, the platter-alignment for some HDDs is critical, for others not so much. That's my first learning from this thread. But how can your tool help me with alignment of the platters to each other?
helpdisc wrote:
Try it on some donors and you will see.
As I mentioned, I (and as you can see some others) tried it on some drives to twist the top platter and the result was a not working drive.
helpdisc wrote:
If you want to be 101% sure you can use strobe light etc etc.
What do you mean with strobe light? I know what strobe light is, but how can I use to to align the platters? Currently I have the platters of a Seashit ST3000DM001 drive in my hands and there are absolutely no visible marks on the platters that can help me realign it after I extracted the platters from the chassis.