<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">On June 29, 2018 10:39:10 AM CDT, Frank H <alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19489"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19493" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19492"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19491"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19490"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19494"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Frank H <alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca>; Sean Cody <sean@tinfoilhat.ca><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:52 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [RndTbl] Hard drive failure - turned out to be an SSD<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19495"><br><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1530243369323_19496">On 2018-06-29 Frank H wrote:<div class="yqt8008712439" id="yqtfd31993"><br clear="none">> I couldn't send the video but yes it is an ssd. Very odd.Very odd</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">Brand?<br clear="none">Part number??<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I can tell by the noise and the blurry video that it's a 2.5" spinning<br clear="none">rust drive.<div class="yqt8008712439" id="yqtfd19114"><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all">Sorry, Frank, that is not an SSD (solid state disk, i.e. flash memory).<br>It's a traditional hard disk, 500GB capacity, spinning at 7200rpm - the rotational speed is even shown on the label in the bottom-right corner.<br><br>If it's making "interesting" new noises, it's likely completely dead. Try the freezer technique anyway, but on those drives, I'd only give it about a 2-3% chance anyway. (The technique works much better on, say, older 3.5" 10000rpm or 15000rpm disks, which run much hotter and have larger components that shrink more when chilled.)<br><br>Good luck - you're going to need it.<br><br>-Adam<br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>