[ale] OT: Migrating off dying HDD

[Jeff Hubbs]

Were it me and if I could get the drive out of the case still wired and 
resting solidy on a flat surface, I'd grab a pot from the kitchen, fill 
it with ice water, and rest it on top of the drive.  You might even put 
some heatsink grease in between.

I get the feeling that that would work *real* well.  I know that if you 
get those "ultimate drive cooler" things (with the blue channeled 
aluminum extrusion that rests atop the drive) seated properly and with 
heatsink grease in between, they carry a lot of heat out, even if you 
don't use the fans that come with them.  My file server has a couple of 
them and whereas I do use the slot cover grilles to let air in, I 
removed the fans and I just let the existing case airflow do the job.  
Those fans just fail anyway.

Jeff

John Mills wrote:

>Geoffrey -
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>Thanks. That's roughly what I had in mind. I only need an hour or two more 
>life out of it, and at the moment it just seems to quit talking without 
>internal trauma, so I will probably get several chances.
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>On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>> 3. Other than a fan, any clever ideas to keep this #$%&!! working long
>>>enough to dump a good fraction of its data? (I plan setting it on a
>>>cold-block and see if that helps.)
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>>If it truly is overheating, there are a number of things you might try. 
>>   I had a box that was poorly cooled, so in the interim, I pulled the 
>>side off and had a 9" fan blowing on the cpu.  This made a 10C degree 
>>difference in the temperature registered by the cpu.
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>>If you have the old drive out of the laptop (sounds like you do), get an 
>>ice pack or fill a ziplock with ice.  lay a towel over the ice 
>>pack/ziplock.  Place the drive on top of the towel.
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>>Not items that I would recommend for long term solutions or for a drive 
>>you plan to keep for any amount of time, but good quick solutions to 
>>cool a device that is overheating.
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