Apparently, though unproven, at 03:13 on Friday 15 October 2010, Daniel da Veiga did opine thusly:
> Funny story. I had one drive that failed once (clicking) and I read > somewhere to "cool" it. So I put the damn thing on the refrigerator, > took it out after a while (it was so cold!), plugged in, and what the > heck, it started working again and I was able to backup all of the > data. After that it worked for a long time before failing again, lol. > Now I always "cool" a clicking drive before replacing it. True story. Another completely off-topic funny story: I used to fix TVs a long time ago. Putting the TV in a freezer to find heat- sensitive faults was reasonably common. Customers would think I was nuts hauling a set out the freezer and sticking it on the bench.... Then they started making those gigantic sets that don't fit into freezers; cold rooms maybe but not freezers. Yet another diagnostic technique that went the way of the dinosaur... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
