Well, the old click-of-death has never sounded this good before..

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.
So it does work in particular cases; not bullshit.


Actually saved data from a server HD that nobody had seen fit to keep backups for. Before giving up and throwing the HD in the scrape heap we figured what's there left to lose and froze it, sure enough it did come back. I've tried it a couple times since on dead drives and for me it's worked less than 50% of the time, but has succeeded more than once. It is worth a shot if all else has failed and there's nothing to lose.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:
Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.


Not heard of this one, but read up on it and I'm intrigued. Just put my old hard drive in the freezer, cabled up and triple bagged. Fingers crossed I'll be able to recover my long lost photos.

This is what your comment looks like in Google translator.>> ^JiggaJonson:
The first time i experienced the hard drive click of death i was still a teen. Lost all my original poetry, music, and art porn.
It still makes me shudder to think of it.
Lesson learned. I keep a backup of everything now .

Actually recovered data from a HD that malfunctioned and had the click of death. So being a tech, I had heard of that old wives tale about putting a dead drive in the freezer. Couldn't believe it actually worked. The first time I had about twelve minutes, I froze it again, eight minutes and then a third time netted me only five, but I got all my data off it.

So it does work in particular cases; not bullshit.

The first time i experienced the hard drive click of death i was still a teen. Lost all my original poetry, music, and art.

It still makes me shudder to think of it.

Lesson learned. I keep a backup of everything now .

>> ^berticus:
This happened to me less than a week ago. Ugh.


Me too, was yours on a month old drive?

I replaced 3 drives with a single 1TB Seagate Barracuda, and on the 31st day (damn you Best Buy) it started clanking on me.

Backups are great unless you've got several hundred GB of data to store. Life would be a lot easier if they'd find a massive storage media that doesn't require moving parts.