Hardware Gore
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This community is dedicated to showcasing broken hardware like phones, laptops, computer hardware and other devices. Here, you can see everything from shattered screens, bent casings, fried motherboards, destroyed gadgets, to liquid damaged phones and battery explosions. Share your unfortunate moments, whether they are unintentional accidents or from moments with lack of control.
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It's literary gotten a head crash, then been peeled like an orange, then taken out to the grass, literally been used as a baseball, and gotten all sorts of dirt on it, and had half the top of it whacked clean off. Something tells me, it'd be damn hard.
You can still recover a lot of data. It'll just be expensive.
This. I've heard even data from hard drives on sunken ships is recoverable. But usually that's only done for legal or insurance purposes.
For those, the platter itself was still sealed. If it would've been open, the seawater would've turned it into very nice e-waste.
No magnets, no acids - you're right in that this'll be hard - but from what the people told me who did a disc rescue for me once this would not yet be the worst thing they see.
The most interesting party for me is the about of tricks they need to do to reconstruct the data structure, ie where does one file and and the next one start. I'm hindsight an obvious issue but I never thought about that.
If your baseball got exactly the right spots the rescue would become at least easy now expensive :D
Are you a troll, or just that misinformed? It was dead the second the head hit the platter. Disks basically Raid0 across platters. It was dead by then. Now, one disk's literally been snapped off, and the whole thing has met grass, dirt, fingerprints, scratches, an effed head, and, atop all this, literal shock from the BASEBALL BAT! Even a few nanometres of misalignment makes it unusable. Also, not to mention a PORTION OF THE F***ING DISK IS MISSING IN THE GARDEN!
Neither. What you don't seem to understand is neither how physically data gets stored nor how data rescue works.
On your very picture a magnetic disk is visible - that's where the storage is. You don't need the original case, head or even platine.
Now don't get me wrong please: I highly doubt that w complete reconstruction is feasible. Instead what I'm trying to convey is that the amount of data still on a trash heap that you transformed this disk into is for me utterly impressive.
Holy shit you seem like you're taking this personally or something. We're not talking about your grandma here.
Look, if you're coming straight off of Reddit, we're nicer than this to each other on Lemmy. Let's show some respect towards our fellow lemmers here now guys. Here we go now.
I'm sorry if I came across as a bit of an arse. Maybe I am. Issue is, though, that you all are GREATLY overstating the possibility of data recovery. It was gone the second the head crashed. But, to tie this up, I'm sorry if I sound rude (for me, it's kinda late and I'm tired), but I AM correct.
I didn't say anything about the recoverability of your drive. I will though:
https://datarecovery.com/rd/what-is-a-hard-drive-head-crash/ 🤷♂️
Seems like it's not as bad as you think? I follow someone on YouTube as well that recovers data, and often they need to switch out a broken head, yet they can still recover data.
I dunno. Maybe everyone is correct. 😉
Yeah, but that doesn't change the fact it's been literally used as a baseball. 10k Gs aren't exactly recommended on an HDD where misalignment on the nanometres destroys it all, let alone the dirt, grass, fingerprints, and... air particulate.
Of course, it's beyond saving now. I think some of us are merely referring to the head crash alone being the definitively irreparable end of the drive. 🙂👍
You are misinformed. It is true, that for consumers the disk is dead when the head crashes onto the surface. But there are companies who specialize in data recovery and they can still read all the undamaged parts. You can even see in your picture that there is only a small band on one disk affected by the crash. The other parts can still be read. Even the broken piece can be read, except the corners. It will by no means be cheap or fast, but if the data is worth more than the recovery it can be done.
So....you're say there's a chance...?
Look up magnetic force microscopes. http://www.dataclinic.it/magnetic-force-microscopy.htm