|
Mississippi | Ron...
>Again-not arguing. You have valid experiences.
I'm going mainly by guesswork with a lot of stuff regarding computers.
All the other components inside a computer case add to the heat, but we've had some externals without fans that would get so hot that you couldn't hardly hold them. They had these ribbed or corrugated cases to allegedly dissipate heat, but it seemed to only be a marginal effect.
Debra had one to fail (the clicking sound is apparently the reader or whatever it's called digging into the platter surface) and another photographer told her that in a case like that you can place a failed external in a freezer. That would contract the metal over several hours, reinstating the gap between the reader (heck, can't remember what it's really called) and the platter. That maybe would get the thing to boot up and run for a while, at least maybe long enough to retrieve data.
She's tried that once without success. But there are people who claimed to have pulled that off, although it does sound a bit like an urban legend.
Wikipedia, BTW, has a page on SATA drives for anyone curious about the differences between drive types. Go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata
Owen | |
|
Consider SATA drives
