[ale] OT: Migrating off dying HDD

[Christopher Fowler]

The only other solution would be to put it in a vat of coolant that  is
non-conductive.  You'll need to find a local machine shop for this
solution.


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 07:54 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> > One of the tricks of the trade is to put your drive in a freezer for
> > long enough to get it really cold.  Then connect it to your "capture"
> > computer and get a dd image as fast as you can:
> 
> My concern is the sudden changes in temperature certainly can't be good 
> for the drive.  From room temperature, to freezer, back to room 
> temperature I would expect would very likely generate condensation. 
> Further, the drastic changes in the temperatures is not good either.
> 
> Thus, my previous suggestion of setting the drive on a towel on top of a 
> freezer pack or a ziplock of ice. It will cool slower and you do the 
> backup while it's still on the pack. I've got some flat freezer packs 
> that will stay cold for 24 hours.  With this solution, the drive 
> temperature is kept relatively constant while you attempt to pull the 
> data off, since you're doing it while it's sitting on the ice pack.
> 
> Pulling it from the freezer and then doing it, you're fighting time and 
> the device will heat up pretty quick if that is fact the original problem.
>