Alas, the odds against played out. From 6 hrs in the freezer, it went straight to its rhythmic scratchy noise and will not mount. It sees the drive label but that's it. Sounds nasty. This happened suddenly for the user. Must have taken a hit or something.
From: Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net To: Frank H alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca; Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca; Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Hard drive failure - turned out to be an SSD
On June 29, 2018 10:39:10 AM CDT, Frank H alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca wrote:
From: Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca To: Frank H alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca Cc: Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca; Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2018 11:52 PM Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Hard drive failure - turned out to be an SSD
On 2018-06-29 Frank H wrote:
I couldn't send the video but yes it is an ssd. Very odd.Very odd
Brand? Part number??
I can tell by the noise and the blurry video that it's a 2.5" spinning rust drive.
Sorry, Frank, that is not an SSD (solid state disk, i.e. flash memory). 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.
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.)
Good luck - you're going to need it.
-Adam