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I just wish that HDDs didn't have all these layers between the data and the OS. Blow the controll board in some way and your sunk. Blow the mechanics and your
by digi_owl 10y ago
I just wish that HDDs didn't have all these layers between the data and the OS.
Blow the controll board in some way and your sunk. Blow the mechanics and your sunk.
with optical media at least you have this passive disc that just sits there.
- JdeBP 10y agoThe lesson of the BBC Domesday Project is that there's more to it than that with optical media.
- digi_owl 10y agoNot sure how much of that can be transferred to later optical media. Right now a fresh off the shelf BR drive can still read (and possibly write) a CD.
- aaronmdjones 10y ago> Blow the controll board in some way and your sunk. Blow the mechanics and your sunk. Not to rain on your parade, but there are several data recovery and forensics services that will pull the data off of such disks. If you have a clean room, you can even do it yourself: all you need is an identical model drive, and to just transfer the physical platters from the broken disk, to the good disk. Think of it like swapping the engine in a car instead of buying a new car. Of course, with the new Helium-filled hard drives coming out these days, that's going to be a lot tougher ...