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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by degenerate on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @07:39AM (#17246146)
I can confirm the freezer trick worked too. This was back before multi-platter high density drives though. I tried it recently with a failed 6TB drives from a friend, and it didn't work.
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Re:Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigat... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @09:17AM (#17246860)
Yeah this was many years ago. I think the one I did it with was a 250GB from the mid to late 2000's
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