The freezer trick has been known to work, but a study on hard drive failures that was recently released by Google suggests that drives fail frequently when they are running "cold." Freezing and then warming the drive causes expanding and contraction, which may shift internal components enough to temporarily fix minor mechanical problems. But make sure you don't run the drive while it is extremely cold, or you may end up further damaging the drive. Let it return to room temperature before putting it back in your machine.
An interesting note: according to Google's data, drives that averaged 35-45C (95-115F) running temperature seemed to have lower failure rates than those that were running cooler or hotter. Perhaps liquid cooling your hard-drives isn't such a great idea after all.
~Bradley
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Monday 19 February 2007 11:36, David Nicol wrote: ...
Start by letting the bad drive cool...
Some even go so far as to put it in the freezer. This can help if the drive is failing to spin up or seek too. _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug