On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 13:30 -0800, Jess Pepito wrote: > naka sulay namo og change sa board or needle sa HD? same brand and > capacity.. naa koy isa ka HD seagate same og problem ani.
generally, i think that backup is cheaper and simpler than trying to do hardware hacks like this. what is the needle, by the way? are you talking about opening up the case and replacing the drive heads? if you don't have a clean room, that's going to be a one-time operation and you may damage the platters before you can get the data off. links to sounds of different kinds of hardware damage here: http://www.acsdata.com/data-recovery.htm some nice discussion here: http://www.beststuff.com/computers/a-hard-drive-crash-can-be-bad-trying-to-fix-it-yourself-can-be-worse.html this is one of those problems that are best solved defensively. avoid ever facing the problem. even without drives falling or data centers burning down or power surges overwhelming everything and destroying motherboards and drives, you're still going to lose your drives every few years, just from wear and tear. avoid the problem by backing up. hard drives are cheap compared to going to a data recovery company to get your data back from the raw platters. and it's no fun to kiss your data goodbye if you can't afford to go to a data recovery company. long ago (this was circa 1995), i read that data recovery from the drive platters was on the order of $5000. it's certainly less now. particularly in the philippines. anyone know (from actual experience, or from hearing from a friend of a friend) what the going rate is? estimates only, of course. answers within +- $1000 are reasonable since costs will vary with the different kinds of damage (and will cost more if the drive owner tried to fix things himself by opening up the case or replacing the boards, although I've heard of successful board replacements since that's not too invasive and just requires finding the exact same model of drive to steal a board from). tiger _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
