i still remember when drives didnt have loading ramps for the headstack. A lot of them were still parked on the platter surface near the hub. I think only laptop drives had that technology.Then IBM came out with the deskstar 40GV and up and other companies followed suit. Guess its safer to have them parked off the platter in case of a fall.

New form of data, powder. Lol You can give them the urn.

Rip nice video btw.

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

I've heard that everything is recoverable if you can spend enough money. Is that true? I've heard advice that one should physically destroy the platters if they want to be *mostly* sure that no one will be able to recover the data. Do you have an idea what would it take to recover this drive, and how much would it cost?

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

This would not be recoverable at all. There is a lot of false information and science fiction with regard to what can be done with hard drives, but essentially in this case, the data is in the filter. The coating, which is a ferromagnetic material, has been wiped away from the platter surface. It looks like charcoal, and each bit is either magnetized or not (speaking from a binary standpoint that is the 1 or the 0). When that material is wiped off of the platter, there's no way to reconstruct it. It would be like writing your name on a piece of wood and sanding it off. You aren't bringing that back, ever.

+ACS Data Recovery Hi, i have an external hard drive that got damaged due to being plugged all night and copying files, while it was covered by a neoprene pouch! next day it was frying pan hot and couldnt read it anymore, after letting it cool down for a day it gets mounted on osx desktop but i cant get to copy any files of it! The model is Seagate Fast HDD Portable Drive (PN: 1JFAP1-500 4 TB) Model SRD00M1. However, 2 disks found inside are identical Samsung Spinpoint M9T (also have Momentus trade mark on it) would you please help me with a guessing as of what could be the first thing that got damaged? also judging by the drives behavior, maybe suggest if with an external component swap like the pc board on both disks might solve the problem? i already found an identical unit also, if i where to plug each drive independently could i somehow restore the union and acces the info? i live in Colombia and there is no chance for me to send the drive to the us! any help apreciated

done any glass platter IBM deskstars that came in with clear platters? i've gotten ahold of a few a long time ago that clicked i opened them up and the platters were clear, no silvery metal film on any of them. EPIC crash.

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Haven't seen any of those in a while, but I do remember them wiped clean so you could see right through them. Some of the portable WD drives also used glass platters.

what is that metal part above the platters called, which is screwed down to hard drive case?

@TCRSCircuit

7 жыл бұрын

Scatter sheild... In case the platter breaks apart in motion.

Thank you very much, Is it possible the platters under the top one are recoverable? You gotta hear this: I just went through a disaster with 2 Seagate 2tb dm family drives that died THE EXACT SAME SECOND, one was the backup for the other, they were bought together. They both made 11 head click with scratches sounds when were powered, I took one to a recovery center and the top platter was scratched all over like in your other video, unfortunately as rhe other made the same sounds exactly is it safe ti assume it's un the same state? I just lost 20 years of work and data, Using a backup drive on the same machine never failed me in 25 years. 😭

@EnragedSephiroth

Ай бұрын

Wondering the same. Also had the exact same failure on my 2TB Seagate. Mine was making a sound here and there maybe every couple of months or so, and sometimes my PC would slow showing 100% usage on HDD on the Task Manager but I never lost data. Until one day I cut the power to my PC and was never able to boot it again. 10 years gone.

which data recovery software are you using?

I'm guessing the drive was probably doing the click or death or making some other abnormal sound and the user either didn't notice it or ignored it altogether personally I'm leaning toward the latter.

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that's exactly what happened unfortunately.

@EnragedSephiroth

Ай бұрын

This is exactly what just happened to me. Unfortunately I didn't know it was coming from the HDD. The one day it just didn't boot anymore. Now I have a dusty set of platters.

@GaryBeltz

Ай бұрын

@@EnragedSephiroth if you absolutely have to get the data off of it there are services like DriveSavers, ACSData, and Kroll OnTrack but you’re going to PAY to get it recovered.

What I find funny is that I got a Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM001 that was from 2012 and it failed, but yet I still have a 1995 Conner Peripherals CFS1081A, 1080MB (1GB) and it works great with no bad sectors! The hard drive as my backup, my 2010 Western Digital Caviar Blue WDC WD1600AAJS 160GB works perfectly with not a single bad sector either and I really wish hard drives now lasted 20+ years like the Conner is! I don't even know how a hard drive from 1995 lasts long than a Seagate from 2012, but Seagate is not a bad company, I have a 2008 Seagate Barracuda ES ST3250620NS and it works fine with no bad sectors either. Isn't there a serious problem with the 3TB ST3000DM001's and the 2TB ST2000DM001's? What is your opinion on Hitachi Deskstars?

@acsdata

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, the DM family Seagate drives, especially the 2TB are notoriously unreliable. Age typically isn't an issue with most drives, so it's not too surprising that an old hard drive could still chug along. It's typically just random component failures that occur. And that can happen in new and old drives alike. We never got as many Hitachi drives in, because they didn't own that big of a market share. But they were acquired by Western Digital in 2012.

@cdos9186

5 жыл бұрын

When are you going to make another video?

yikes thats pretty bad! another seagate!

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Yes it is.

is that a ST3000DM001? ST2000DM001?

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Surprisingly enough it's not a DM family drive.

@NelsonBigGunP200Fan

7 жыл бұрын

weird. Out of a external? Barracuda LP?

what happen to this derive get it to this shit

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

Head crash

do you really wear the "suit" when off camera? Hmmmm.

@acsdata

7 жыл бұрын

We don't enjoy making our job more difficult than it is, so we definitely wear a cover when working on recoveries. It's nothing fancy, just covers you up. It used to not be something we did every time, but it reduces the risk of contaminating the drives with things like hair, thread, skin flakes, etc. enough to warrant their use. In other words...no it's not just for show.