Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Data Damage Problem Due to Hard Drives Heat

Few days back I have seen a case of hard drive crash . In that case machine heated due to hard drive platters had warped and hard drive became inaccessible .User usually know that it happens because the platters needed to be swapped and user tries swap him self but user doesn't know that this is not a basic reason behind that. That user tries to replace the hard drive a 250GB Maxtor IDE hard drive with 2(160GB)hard drive. But he was failed. After all of his experiments user examined that in this condition there are many chances of data loss .Then he directly contacted to a hard drive recovery company.

After one week I was continuously worked on my system and suddenly my power supply went off and Now I checked the internal temp of my new system. As I always try to maintain the temp because I have seen the heating problem of that user. This is a kind of example that we need to learn ourselves on how to deal with heat. Every computer machine has Serial ATA so the drives are big and fast, but they get blazing hot. For that ,I installed hard drive fans on them I snagged them . Because every system has a good setup with the proper balance between positive and negative air flow, this helped a bunch. I always maintained it at 75 degrees.

As I know that there are many other methods of cooling for laptops and desktops has a added advantage of fan that are added to almost every computers including above case or the housing itself that will drop the computers core temperature drastically. Aluminum cases are becoming very popular as they can run up to 6 times cooler then a standard steel case.

The very first thing that I did not understand about it was how does a platter warp? It seems that when we usage the drive if it heats up with maximum temperature then immediately turns it off or it goes into hibernation, when the hard disk cools down ,this can be case of cause minimal warping. When I say minimal we are talking about the millimeter. If Hard drive clicking noises and producing loud sound then it some times becomes scary for a user because it is a symbol of physical damage .The hard disk is a very precise piece of technology that is born to fail. To learn more about hard drives crash cases or recovery of data visit hard drive recovery company site. And a normal logical damage you can recover by your own. For logical hard drive data recovery you can try windows hard drive recovery software solution that are available for different operating system and made easy recovery of your hard drive data.

Above discussed all conditions give lessons and motivate me and all others to have good backup plan for safety of data if you don’t have one already.