Hey guys, When my friend game me his failed hd it is an SSD. System sees it but can't open See attached video for the sound it is making. Hope 16GB isn't too big. I know odds are low but just have to ask if anyone has any ideas. Freezing SSDs is not a thing correct? Sure sounds like moving parts to me. Never troubleshot an SSD before. Thanks,Frank
On 2018-06-22 Frank H wrote:
Hey guys, When my friend game me his failed hd it is an SSD. System sees it but can't open See attached video for the sound it is making. Hope 16GB isn't too big. I know odds are low but just have to ask if anyone has any ideas. Freezing SSDs is not a thing correct? Sure sounds like moving parts to me. Never troubleshot an SSD before. Thanks,Frank
That isn't an SSD. That's a notebook hard drive (spinning rust). That's a typical death click, and even worse it sounds like scraping too.
You're probably not going to get any data off of that.
If you desperately need the data, one of the recovery places might be able to do something with it for $1000+.
If it's not worth that much, I would pop it open to take a look (as you have nothing to lose). I bet there's scrapes all over the platter. If there isn't, you might be able to buy an identical (all #'s match except the serial) drive and swap platters. Not very easy, but might work.
That isn't an SSD. SSD's don't have moving parts to make sound. My guess that it is an SSHD (a regular hard drive with a small amount of solid state flash acting as a buffer/cache).
By that sound... it's hooped. You could try the freeze trick but my luck with that is 1 in 10.
I couldn't send the video but yes it is an ssd. Very odd.Very odd
From: Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca To: Frank H alteahandle-muug@yahoo.ca; Continuation of Round Table discussion roundtable@muug.ca Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Hard drive failure - turned out to be an SSD
That isn't an SSD. SSD's don't have moving parts to make sound. My guess that it is an SSHD (a regular hard drive with a small amount of solid state flash acting as a buffer/cache).
By that sound... it's hooped. You could try the freeze trick but my luck with that is 1 in 10.
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.
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
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
I am going out of town and cell coverage for an extended long weekend. Thank you all for your replies. Back Wed.Aah I see that it is a spinning drive. Will try freezer Wed.
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.
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