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[H] reader extraordinaire "Amazon3d" sent us these pictures as a reminder to always keep your backed up data off site. Thankfully this hard-drive-turned-toaster-strudel did not belong to him.
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....external back up drive, left at work, building burned down.
[...]Friday (the 13th). [...]
Controller board looks alright, (I would expect it to be ash if it was in a fire), I'm seeing more dirt and corrosion than fire damage, platters might be okay for data retrieval.
Wow did not figure a drive could burn that much, figured it would just darken and the pcb and platter coating would melt off but that's it.
That almost looks like it sat in hydrochloric acid for a couple days. That must have been one hell of a fire.
This reminds me, I need to make some thermite. I have a bunch of drives I need to destroy.
Friday 13th in which calendar?
Almost happened to me last Friday (the 13th). SATA power connector in my ML110 G5 apparently shorted itself, caught on fire and only stopped when the connector finally shorted to ground cutting off the power. The drives, memory and cables above it all were singed with soot.
Amazingly, after replacing the connector (it was a molex to 2xSATA power) everything still works.
External hd would have had a plastic shell
Keep data backed up offsite.. Great for businesses I guess.. Home users... How would I do that? Bank deposit box? =D
Keep data backed up offsite.. Great for businesses I guess.. Home users... How would I do that? Bank deposit box? =D
Heat destroys magnetism. Without insulation, the platters are probably unreadable.
But consider the lowly Flight Recorder. It saves data at 1000°C for 30 minutes. Long after all the aluminum is gone.
As mentioned before, that is not fire damage. The one thing on that drive that "Would" burn the PCB is intact and it wouldn't be. That is water/corrosion damage. It looks like that thing sat in a very moist environment if not completely submerged for a long period of time.