Question HDD failure ?

[Tennobyte]

Hello there. I've experienced sudden HDD malfunction.

All I want to say:
I did victoria surface full test once, all the sectors was "gray" and only few "green" (1s) with no orange, red, or "ERR" ones.
SMART was good until the very last second before it dies (It reported 40 uncorrectable sectors too late)
Drive isn't initializing anymore.

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[cruisetung]

It's dead, no backups, no solution.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Don't mind how DIY is this, just take a look at video

You opened it. Say goodbye to your data.
No data recovery service will take it anymore.

Hard drives can be opened only in specialized clean room environment.

 

[Tennobyte]

You opened it. Say goodbye to your data.
No data recovery service will take it anymore.

Hard drives can be opened only in specialized clean room environment.

I just won't tell them It has been opened.

Trust me, when I was detaching my chandelier I've noticed it has been working on copper and aluminum wires twisted together for so much years (on incandescent lamps, not low wattage).

A bit of spinning without a cover won't hurt it much.

 

[cruisetung]

I just won't tell them It has been opened.

Trust me, when I was detaching my chandelier I've noticed it has been working on copper and aluminum wires twisted together for so much years (on incandescent lamps, not low wattage).

A bit of spinning without a cover won't hurt it much.

You have no idea. As suggested, nowadays all HDD must be opened in clean room environment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=HDD+must+be+opened+in+clean+room+environment

 

[Tennobyte]

You have no idea. As suggested, nowadays all HDD must be opened in clean room environment.

https://www.google.com/search?q=HDD+must+be+opened+in+clean+room+environment

I don't argue that it requires a clean room, however, fine dust won't hurt it more than it damaged right now. In my opinion it is not a optical drive that dust can block a beam of light. It is magnetic drive, magnetism is something different. (I am aware of scratching surface and etc)

 

[cruisetung]

It's already dead before you opened the cover so it actually doesn't matter anymore.

 

[SkyNetRising]

however, fine dust won't hurt it more than it damaged right now.

LOL No.
Dust particles actually cause physical damage on platters and read head. This physically destroys data.

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[Moonstick2]

A bit of spinning without a cover won't hurt it much.

...fine dust won't hurt it more than it damaged right now. In my opinion it is not a optical drive that dust can block a beam of light. It is magnetic drive, magnetism is something different.

It's nothing to do with magnetism and everything to do with mechanical conditions, involving heads flying at high speed across the surface at a distance that makes dust particles look like boulders. Watching that arm scanning across the entire platter as it spins at high rpm in a totally open environment, I can practically feel the disk being ruined.

Nice angle with the reflection though, so there's that I guess.

Trust me, when I was detaching my chandelier I've noticed it has been working on copper and aluminum wires twisted together for so much years (on incandescent lamps, not low wattage).

Are you really comparing HDD technology to incandescent bulbs?

I just won't tell them It has been opened.

Fair enough, but it does feel like you're going to be wasting their time as well as yours.

 

[cruisetung]

Repair cost

https://www.google.com/search?q=hdd+repair+cost

Yet I believe your hdd condition is beyound repairable

 

[USAFRet]

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[USAFRet]

I just won't tell them It has been opened.

They'll know.

Drives die. Eventually, all of them. Some sooner than others, and some quite suddenly.

Its dead.

 

[Tennobyte]

Are you really comparing HDD technology to incandescent bulbs?

I meant, two incompatible metals connected with just a twist. No weld, no connectors. Copper and aluminum errode overtime creating a chemical blah blah electrolysis whatever.

All I want to say is - Sometimes things made on a knee surprisingly works and works way more than expected.
Plus, I've contacted my local data recovery, they said it will go around 30.000 KZT -> 55 USD for 500GB.
This feels like american hospital prices, but with HDD recovery prices of what you've expected.

 

[cruisetung]

Good luck.

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[Moonstick2]

All I want to say is - Sometimes things made on a knee surprisingly works and works way more than expected.

I just...a couple of twisted bits of metal conducting nothing more than a few amps AC at a modest voltage tells nobody anything about running an HDD open in a home. You may as well tell us about putting your wet phone in rice.

Plus, I've contacted my local data recovery, they said it will go around 30.000 KZT -> 55 USD for 500GB.
This feels like american hospital prices, but with HDD recovery prices of what you've expected.

Did they have anything to say about you opening it, or...?

Nobody's said it'll be more expensive because it's been opened, it's about recovery being possible/impossible. It could still be possible of course, just that running it like you did made it 1000x more likely to be impossible to recover data from it.

Here in the UK, recovering data from a failed drive is in the £300 - £500 ballpark, so about the price of an okay TV/laptop or low-mid range phone you could say? How that compares to the prices in Kazakhstan would give you an idea if this is a proper data recovery place used to dealing with hardware-fault HDDs or a place that's just going to try and find data marked deleted.

 

[Hasselblad]

You opened it. Say goodbye to your data.
No data recovery service will take it anymore.

Hard drives can be opened only in specialized clean room environment.

Actually I have opened a drive and later recovered from that drive so it is never a 100% "You opened it. Say goodbye to your data."

 

[Hasselblad]

Hello there. I've experienced sudden HDD malfunction.

All I want to say:
I did victoria surface full test once, all the sectors was "gray" and only few "green" (1s) with no orange, red, or "ERR" ones.
SMART was good until the very last second before it dies (It reported 40 uncorrectable sectors too late)
Drive isn't initializing anymore.

Don't mind how DIY is this, just take a look at video

Just restore your weekly backup