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I wonder if these will be recoverable by traditional data recovery means, or if opening them and exposing the platters to normal air instead of helium would mea

I wonder if these will be recoverable by traditional data recovery means, or if opening them and exposing the platters to normal air instead of helium would mean they can't spin/run correctly. If helium-filled HDD technology becomes more widespread I am curious about the potential impact to the data recovery market.

lallysingh 11y ago
You could always open them in a larger helium chamber.
- sageabilly 11y ago
  Which would add a significant up-front cost that would have to be shouldered by the data recovery company. Potentially an issue for small shops (which most data recovery companies are.)
  - samstave 11y ago
    Get one of those vacuum sealing luggage bags, cut holes in side and glue in some rubber gloves into these holes. Put drive and tools in. Vacuum seal it, then Fill with helium you get from the party store. Wear gloves, pickup tools and dismantle drive.
    - dogma1138 11y ago
      Or just buy a biosaftey glovebox they start around the 2000$ mark http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuaire-NU-704-300-Biological-Isolation-Safety-Cabinet-3-Glove-Box-/141559481390?hash=item20f59a442e:g:8tMAAOSw0e9UzACN http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuaire-NU-704-300-Biological-Isolati... And pressurize it with helium or a noble gas.
dogma1138 11y ago
Probably not but neither are SSD's, judging by how many data recovery places have went out of business I don't think it's a major consideration any more. If it dies in an enterprise environment it would be part of a redundant array of some sort (I can't think of a single use case for such a large and expensive drive in a single drive setup), gone are the days when the 30GB HDD in the CEO's tower died and you had to rush it to some 48 hours recovery service to get that "super important" presentation they had on it (AKA his vacation pictures). I'm pretty sure that like 90% of the current data recovery cases are from people that still carry mechanical portable drives or haven't switched to a NAS with RAID support which will never be the market segment for those drives anyhow.

lallysingh 11y ago

You could always open them in a larger helium chamber.

sageabilly 11y ago
Which would add a significant up-front cost that would have to be shouldered by the data recovery company. Potentially an issue for small shops (which most data recovery companies are.)
- samstave 11y ago
  Get one of those vacuum sealing luggage bags, cut holes in side and glue in some rubber gloves into these holes. Put drive and tools in. Vacuum seal it, then Fill with helium you get from the party store. Wear gloves, pickup tools and dismantle drive.
  - dogma1138 11y ago
    Or just buy a biosaftey glovebox they start around the 2000$ mark http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuaire-NU-704-300-Biological-Isolation-Safety-Cabinet-3-Glove-Box-/141559481390?hash=item20f59a442e:g:8tMAAOSw0e9UzACN http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nuaire-NU-704-300-Biological-Isolati... And pressurize it with helium or a noble gas.

dogma1138 11y ago

Probably not but neither are SSD's, judging by how many data recovery places have went out of business I don't think it's a major consideration any more. If it dies in an enterprise environment it would be part of a redundant array of some sort (I can't think of a single use case for such a large and expensive drive in a single drive setup), gone are the days when the 30GB HDD in the CEO's tower died and you had to rush it to some 48 hours recovery service to get that "super important" presentation they had on it (AKA his vacation pictures). I'm pretty sure that like 90% of the current data recovery cases are from people that still carry mechanical portable drives or haven't switched to a NAS with RAID support which will never be the market segment for those drives anyhow.