[Eug-lug] Damaged hard drive

[abrown at peak.org]

> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:18 -0700, abrown at peak.org wrote:
>> Oops!  My bad.  It's not an IBM.  Its a WD2500 Cavaliar.
>> WD2500JB-00EVA0 dated 16 Dec 2003.
>> Anybody have one of those I can trade?
>> --
>> Allen
>
> If it's WD, you might as well toss it.  They were good for awhile until
> they apparently started having them made with either an overseas parts,
> or it was an engineering defect.

Once I get the data off it *will* be trashed.

> Several years ago, I started buying Seagate instead... WD is very testy
> with weather (hot & cold).  My seagate external drive survived -10F to
> +150F... plus survived east to west US coast drives (ie. >8,000ft to <
> slightly below sea level).  Including teh fact it also operated in +110%
> humidity below 0F.
>
> I used to buy WD all the time until two dropped dead (head
> misalignment).
>
> You can try sticking the thing in a freezer and hooking it up to try to
> exact the data with keeping the drive cool.  (See notes on the web
> concerning this method.)
>
> Other then this, if it's under warranty, WD -- if you're lucky -- will
> just replace it with another defective drive.  Seriously.
>
> Remember.  Unbacked-up data is lost data!
>
> --
> Roger
> http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
> Key fingerprint = 8977 A252 2623 F567 70CD 1261 640F C963 1005 1D61

Much of it was backed up.  Some was not.
--
Allen

> Fri May 18 18:15:44 PDT 2007
>
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