I've used the freezer trick twice, with success.
Frank
From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On
Behalf Of Morgan Blackthorne
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:26 PM
To: john boris
Cc: t...@lopsa.org
Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Hard drive recovery
Ah, yes, the joys of drives that don't quite have enough force to spin up
past the friction of congealing lubrication. I remember having to do that
to a few drives back in the day when we moved offices at that same ISP. As
long as the drives were running they were fine, but a power failure or such
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014, john boris wrote:
Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be
in the range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my
boss that and reviving him I gave the hard drive one more shot and got it
back up and running. I must have done
> From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org]
> On Behalf Of john boris
>
> Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be in
> the
> range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my boss that
> and reviving him I gave the ha
I use that here at home as well, and I've been very happy with it. I just
need to more the actual pool storage to a redundant system.
--
~*~ StormeRider ~*~
"Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we
are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corn
I understand that. I have used the handle of a Wooden screw driver to sort
of "shock" a drive back to life. When it started we almost had to sit on
the tower case to keep it still. Surprisingly I got a good backup off of
that unit.
Trust me this bad boy is not getting shutdown until I have what I
Chances are the disk probably cooled down overnight if you had it
unplugged. As it heats up, it may fail again. Back up the most critical
files first, then try to do a full copy of the disk; that way even if the
full backup fails you've got the most critical files.
We once ran a drive inside a dor
:)
This is very normal... Just like insurance is normally skimped on, until
they find out they actually need it. Or the mentality that "no one is
going to break in", until they get broken into (virtually or real.)
On 03/11/14 10:11, john boris wrote:
Just to close this out. I made a call to
Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be
in the range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my
boss that and reviving him I gave the hard drive one more shot and got it
back up and running. I must have done something right overnight. Anyway I
kicke
