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"andy" wrote in message ... On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:42:05 GMT, Grinder wrote: andy wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:51:07 GMT, "Ron Reaugh" wrote: WRONG, they're covered with soot and unusable. How can you be sure? The platters are moving quite fast -- thousands of RPMs. When the heads crash they will generate generate debris above those rapidly moving platters. Where else would those particles come to rest? But that still may not disable access to most of the data in a short period of time. According to Ontrack opening a disk in ordinary conditions (which I assume is even worse than those particles from head crash) usually shortens life of a disk from 100 to 1000 times - it doesn't kill all data on disk instantly. That's misleading. The mean time to TOTAL failure once the lid has been lifted is down in the hours range and can be MUCH less. |
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"Ron Reaugh" wrote in message ... "andy" wrote in message ... On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:42:05 GMT, Grinder wrote: andy wrote: On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:51:07 GMT, "Ron Reaugh" wrote: WRONG, they're covered with soot and unusable. How can you be sure? The platters are moving quite fast -- thousands of RPMs. When the heads crash they will generate generate debris above those rapidly moving platters. Where else would those particles come to rest? But that still may not disable access to most of the data in a short period of time. According to Ontrack opening a disk in ordinary conditions (which I assume is even worse than those particles from head crash) usually shortens life of a disk from 100 to 1000 times - it doesn't kill all data on disk instantly. That's misleading. The mean time to TOTAL failure once the lid has been lifted is down in the hours range and can be MUCH less. Clueless. Can't even setup his newsreader properly either. |
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"Folkert Rienstra" wrote in message ... time. According to Ontrack opening a disk in ordinary conditions (which I assume is even worse than those particles from head crash) usually shortens life of a disk from 100 to 1000 times - it doesn't kill all data on disk instantly. That's misleading. The mean time to TOTAL failure once the lid has been lifted is down in the hours range and can be MUCH less. Clueless. Can't even setup his newsreader properly either. Go ahead wacko...pull the cover from a =60GB HD mfg in the last 2 years and let it sit there and run with the lid off in the average home environment...tell us all how long it lives. While it's goin watch it carefully...you might learn something..wear glasses. |
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