Seagate drives survive incredible explosions but my seagate crashed cause i left it on over night. meh. 99% data recovery thats something to talk about. Especially considering the explosion and the crash to the ground at Mach 11.
I'm sure they didn't just plug it into the ol' IDE cables and copied 99% of the data. Most likely they used an electron microscope or some other fancy toy to read the hard drive, so it didn't actually have to be in operational condition.
It probably wasn't that hard to recover, considering the relatively good condition of the casing. They probably just transplanted the platters to a working drive of the same model.
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Seagate drives survive incredible explosions but my seagate crashed cause i left it on over night. meh. 99% data recovery thats something to talk about. Especially considering the explosion and the crash to the ground at Mach 11.
I don't think the terminal velocity of a hard drive would be Mach 11 by the time it hit the ground, but I understand what you're saying.
I'm sure they didn't just plug it into the ol' IDE cables and copied 99% of the data. Most likely they used an electron microscope or some other fancy toy to read the hard drive, so it didn't actually have to be in operational condition.
It probably wasn't that hard to recover, considering the relatively good condition of the casing. They probably just transplanted the platters to a working drive of the same model.