Don’t worry, it was already effed (you can see the head crash), so we just took it out back and played Baseball with it.
Cheaply? No.
With a huge pile of cash? Yes. Some of it.
Maybe a small amount, but remember, disks effectively RAID0 across all their platters. We’d be talking billions of €/£/$, for maybe what, a kB at most?;
That’s extremely unrealistic.
In order for data recovery to cost billions and to only recover a few kB you would need to be looking at a HDD that was ground to course dust.
Billions is a dedicated lab with hundreds of staff with the best dedicated equipment humanity can create.
billions?? I don’t think you have any idea of how data recovery works. Yes, it wouldn’t be cheap, but it would not even be in the millions. It likely wouldn’t even break into the hundreds of thousands. And you’d likely get much more than a kilobyte. It doesn’t matter that you had a head crash, the data is still on the platters. Sure, some will likely be corrupt, but I think you’re vastly underestimating modern data recovery services.
I mean, there are companies who can extract the data from even the most broken of drives, so I don’t doubt that you could get the data off of it.
It’s literary gotten a head crash, then been peeled like an orange, then taken out to the grass, literally been used as a baseball, and gotten all sorts of dirt on it, and had half the top of it whacked clean off. Something tells me, it’d be damn hard.
You can still recover a lot of data. It’ll just be expensive.
This. I’ve heard even data from hard drives on sunken ships is recoverable. But usually that’s only done for legal or insurance purposes.
For those, the platter itself was still sealed. If it would’ve been open, the seawater would’ve turned it into very nice e-waste.
No magnets, no acids - you’re right in that this’ll be hard - but from what the people told me who did a disc rescue for me once this would not yet be the worst thing they see.
The most interesting party for me is the about of tricks they need to do to reconstruct the data structure, ie where does one file and and the next one start. I’m hindsight an obvious issue but I never thought about that.
If your baseball got exactly the right spots the rescue would become at least easy now expensive :D
Are you a troll, or just that misinformed? It was dead the second the head hit the platter. Disks basically Raid0 across platters. It was dead by then. Now, one disk’s literally been snapped off, and the whole thing has met grass, dirt, fingerprints, scratches, an effed head, and, atop all this, literal shock from the BASEBALL BAT! Even a few nanometres of misalignment makes it unusable. Also, not to mention a PORTION OF THE F***ING DISK IS MISSING IN THE GARDEN!
Neither. What you don’t seem to understand is neither how physically data gets stored nor how data rescue works.
On your very picture a magnetic disk is visible - that’s where the storage is. You don’t need the original case, head or even platine.
Now don’t get me wrong please: I highly doubt that w complete reconstruction is feasible. Instead what I’m trying to convey is that the amount of data still on a trash heap that you transformed this disk into is for me utterly impressive.
Holy shit you seem like you’re taking this personally or something. We’re not talking about your grandma here.
Look, if you’re coming straight off of Reddit, we’re nicer than this to each other on Lemmy. Let’s show some respect towards our fellow lemmers here now guys. Here we go now.
I’m sorry if I came across as a bit of an arse. Maybe I am. Issue is, though, that you all are GREATLY overstating the possibility of data recovery. It was gone the second the head crashed. But, to tie this up, I’m sorry if I sound rude (for me, it’s kinda late and I’m tired), but I AM correct.
you all
I didn’t say anything about the recoverability of your drive. I will though:
It was gone the second the head crashed. […] I AM correct.
https://datarecovery.com/rd/what-is-a-hard-drive-head-crash/ 🤷♂️
Seems like it’s not as bad as you think? I follow someone on YouTube as well that recovers data, and often they need to switch out a broken head, yet they can still recover data.
I dunno. Maybe everyone is correct. 😉
Yeah, but that doesn’t change the fact it’s been literally used as a baseball. 10k Gs aren’t exactly recommended on an HDD where misalignment on the nanometres destroys it all, let alone the dirt, grass, fingerprints, and… air particulate.
Look up magnetic force microscopes. http://www.dataclinic.it/magnetic-force-microscopy.htm
So…you’re say there’s a chance…?
Well, I see a few ones and a couple of zeros if that helps?
