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> You can't just pop the platters into a new drive, even if you had an identical model It's certainly inconvenient, but this is my untested understanding of ho
by quesera 2y ago
> You can't just pop the platters into a new drive, even if you had an identical model
It's certainly inconvenient, but this is my untested understanding of how drive recovery services can work.
- qingcharles 2y agoWith older drives, pre-about-2010 I think, you can, as I understand it. After that they added little NVRAM chips to the boards which hold data about the disk, so you need to make sure they match. I just fried a HDD controller with a bad SATA cable, so I'm having to switch the chip from one board to another to try to recover the data.
- hilbert42 2y agoOh dear, here we're talking about age deterioration. Swapping media as a solution only works if the remanence hasn't decayed below the recoverable threshold.