Don’t worry, it was already effed (you can see the head crash), so we just took it out back and played Baseball with it.

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    16 days ago

    you all

    I didn’t say anything about the recoverability of your drive. I will though:

    It was gone the second the head crashed. […] I AM correct.

    https://datarecovery.com/rd/what-is-a-hard-drive-head-crash/ 🤷‍♂️

    Seems like it’s not as bad as you think? I follow someone on YouTube as well that recovers data, and often they need to switch out a broken head, yet they can still recover data.

    I dunno. Maybe everyone is correct. 😉

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      Yeah, but that doesn’t change the fact it’s been literally used as a baseball. 10k Gs aren’t exactly recommended on an HDD where misalignment on the nanometres destroys it all, let alone the dirt, grass, fingerprints, and… air particulate.

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        15 days ago

        Of course, it’s beyond saving now. I think some of us are merely referring to the head crash alone being the definitively irreparable end of the drive. 🙂👍