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 Post subject: Is dust-free environment necessary for HDD surgeries?
PostPosted: October 5th, 2022, 21:10 
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Saw this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBIR7OxZ2hk

He wasn't wearnig gloves, and it looks like your typical home/studio environment.

This got me thinking, if you have to replace parts or perform repairs on an HDD, is the dust-free environment needed, at all? Like one of those rooms where if you enter, you have to go through a de-dust chamber of some sort?


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 Post subject: Re: Is dust-free environment necessary for HDD surgeries?
PostPosted: October 6th, 2022, 9:59 
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This was only demo video showing how this tool work like.

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PostPosted: October 6th, 2022, 11:32 
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You don't need a clean room. A clean cabinet is enough.

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 Post subject: Re: Is dust-free environment necessary for HDD surgeries?
PostPosted: October 7th, 2022, 21:55 
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pclab wrote:
You don't need a clean room. A clean cabinet is enough.


The dust-free part, we are talking about lab-level or small workshop, not so serious level?


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 Post subject: Re: Is dust-free environment necessary for HDD surgeries?
PostPosted: October 7th, 2022, 22:05 
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There is almost never going to be a dust-free environment, however dust particles could be controlled. The ISO ranking, like ISO 10, ISO 5, etc type of cleanrooms denote the amount of dust particles per specific area. The lower the number, the cleaner the environment.

ISO 10 or better is recommended for hard disk drive work.

In his suggestion, I think pclab refers to a clean laminar flow bench/hood/workstation, which is like a mini cleanroom, that you only put your arms in and work within the clean environment. Gloves are recommended, of course.
Here is one for example: https://www.aircleansystems.com/product ... orkstation

Size of the lab or workshop is irrelevant. Either the job is done per standards or not.

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 Post subject: Re: Is dust-free environment necessary for HDD surgeries?
PostPosted: October 8th, 2022, 18:10 
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There are tutorials online to build clean benches/glove boxes yourself.


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DIY clean chamber, v2

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29602

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The less dust, fingerprints and spit inside the drive, the better.

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