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I'm thinking of rigging up one or two ultrasonic cleaning units to attempt cleaning of dirty read/write heads & possibly platters in some cases. I see talk on this thread of using 99-100% pure isopropyl alcohol to do it. However I know others claim that alcohol leaves a residue behind. So I'm...

Looks like ACE has finally beat Seagate's encryption and will be releasing the technique soon: http://forum.acelaboratory.com/viewtopi ... 537#p30537

Here you go: The consolidated ROM version is 0004002Q, which you mentioned above. I just didn't get a chance to look for it until now. But for future reference, you can use any module 11 from a same family drive with that ROM version. For example I have resources from a WD20EFRX-00DC0B0...

So today I suddenly notice that my OS SSD in my PC-3000 system is warning that it's full. Which is very odd because I don't store anything there, just programs. Even my !profiles folders are all stored on my 24TB RAID array in the same system. So I ran WinDirStat to find what's eating up all...

I'm helping a guy remotely to recover a RAID 5 from a Dell Server using a PERC S100 controller (found model in metadata). Unfortunately it looks like someone initialized the drives and overwrote the partition tables. Anyone know what the default stripe size is on this controller? The manual...

I just stumbled upon this whitepaper from EMC while doing some research for a possible case coming in. I think it's the best explanation I've ever seen of how RAID 6 actually calculates double parity and how it uses it to restore lost blocks in a two drive failure. Anyone wanting to really...

Here's Denali Family LDRs:

Here's Cypress Family:

Here's Cougar Family:

Does anyone know of a place you can buy external hard drives in bulk at a good price? I sell about 5-6 per week, mostly Toshiba Canvios, and I've just been buying them on Amazon. Have any of you ever found a place you can buy these by the case and save a few bucks? Even if it's $5 less per...

I think it might be nice to have a thread here for unusual head swap experiences that worked. Here's mine from today: Patient: WD2500AAJS-75M0A0 DCM: HANNNT2CH Date: 30 Aug 2009 Head map: 0, 1 Donor: WD3200AAKS-00L9A0 DCM: HBRNHT2CGN Date: 01 Nov 2009 Head map: 0, 1 Works perfectly and...

OK, so a week has gone by since switching to a much faster hosting company from my old hosting. Already I notice that now Google is constantly crawling my site and especially this forum. Just look at the crawl rate impact in the last week: The page loading time is way down as you can see in...

I'm not sure what (or who) happened here, but I just got in an SAS drive for recovery. Imaging went well, only a few bad sectors near the beginning but when I look at the data it's almost all zeros. Ran a scan in R-Studio and found some random data near the middle, but nothing useful. Then I...

I've got a drive here which I'm trying to smart hot swap due to SA damage. However when I try to write tracks to any donors they won't ID (the original drive does ID, but has issues). I'm pretty sure the issue is that the SA region seems to be non-standard for the model. For example: Donors...

My phone backs up all the pictures to google photos. I just find it funny the stuff it decides to animate together, like this dancing Toshiba HDD: You have to click it to see the animation.

Does anyone know if it's possible to move the location of a System file in the SA? I've never seen any way of doing this in any menus. I'm helping a guy with a drive that has an issue with both copies of system file 28, but I've got a good read of the file. Just that it won't read it from SA...

OK, after about a week of dealing with terrible support at my old hosting company the transfer of this site to the new hosting company is complete. Feel free to post till your heart is content :D , there won't be any lost content, and I think we even got all the old content 100%.

OK, site data was moved over last night but the SSL still isn't set up yet so I haven't pointed the DNS to the new host. So anything posted now won't be seen in a few days. Might as well ignore this forum for a few days. Also expect some downtime in between.

Just FYI the migration to the new hosting company has been endlessly delayed due to my current worthless hosting company. I'm hoping in the next 24hrs to get it done, however in the meantime between now and then anything you post in this forum will likely be lost. So please don't post any long...

I'm moving this site over to a new host. Just be aware that anything you post right now, might get deleted when the transfer is complete. It's being setup temp on the new host right now, and after it's done I'll redirect the domain. Likely to be some lost content in between.