My PC would start clicking now and then so i was preparing myself for a hard drive failure. I run on two HDDs. (Not counting externals) at the end of the day one of my HDDs is almost 7 years old! So when the clicking became frequent i made sure to backup all my files onto my brand spanking new HDD. A few hours ago the time came. My machine went all clicky and froze. It was time to throw away a trusty old HDD... Turns out it was my brand new HDD that died. Almost 200 gigs of stuff down the drain. Il stick it in the freezer and see if i can recover anything out of it. But have you ever seen a 7 year old hard drive work after 7 years of every day use? This is crazy!
Never heard about this freezer trick. Any electronic equipment's longevity depends.I saw many things crashed on the first day.
Interesting freezer tip. I'll have to keep that one in mind! Suppose that's kind of in line with putting batteries in the freezer? Guess that's the new thing I learned for the day!
Freezer trick helped me backup some of my files. I stupidly forgot where the damn DVD backups went! GRRRR!
I've probably done this on 3 dozen hard drives (used to work in a computer shop) - worked almost every time. Sometimes, only worked long enough to "ghost" the drives. That's a bummer OP. When I start hearing noise from my computer, I unplug everything, and then re-plug them in one-by-one to determine where the noise is coming from. I've lost data like that before though. Once from a lightning strike/power bump. Huge bummer!
Makes drive cold electronic components age. the more temp, the faster thye age. often components at EOL go out of spec if warm, but still in spec when cold. cooling might help then. but not always. sometimes components only in spec when warm, but not when cold. then heating helps. most time out of spec if warm of course bc spec are usully made for temp 20-30. cooling and then using the part can also kill the part fast, bc of water condensing on parts!
The distance between the head and the magnetic surface of the hard drive is thinner than a human hair. So by freezing you are shrinking certain parts effecting the magnetism as well i believe... I have seen a proper scientific explanation somewhere before. 5starpix No idea lol
im running 3 hard drives all over 10 years old! (2x6gig & 1x8gig) total 20gig total! you guys are lucky with you 200gig drives and tera gig drives! my intet pentium processor is running @ 300mhz and ive 196mb of memory running windows XP! LOL some idiot from PC WORLD told me my pc was not broadband compatable 'cos it had no usb slots, soon proved him wrong, got a PCI to USB card from CHINA! LONG LIVE THE OLD! (do u think i should upgrade it to VISTA?)
I hope the pictures of that girls boobs was not on that drive!! I still have to convince you to show them
I have 8 years old on my pc, it's 10 gigs, have a few bad sectors, but works very fine still, not to say about 700 mhz celeron processor