Freezing A hard drive

[h25520062]

Alright I would take it appart but I need to go out and get a set of torx

 

[~mr mixx~]

let me know how it goes, i am going to take mine apart when it starts to go, i'll tmp fix the read/write arm if i have to, then re seal it so it's air tight again. i have to work on the solutuion of doing that though.

 

[X1337]

Wait, so first we freez a cpu - chipsets and a video card now harddrivers whats next freez your psu?

 

[DJ-CHRIS1]

let me know how it goes, i am going to take mine apart when it starts to go, i'll tmp fix the read/write arm if i have to, then re seal it so it's air tight again. i have to work on the solutuion of doing that though.

Hard drives are not airtight, they have a small filter so that they can release excess pressure caused by altitude and temperature changes.

 

[~mr mixx~]

i kind of figured that, since i saw that little warning on them saying do not cover this hole, but i was more or less agreeing with the air tight scenario

 

[Kage]

Hmm...I always figured they were...

 

[David Lindon]

Anyone still got that video of the inside of a working drive running the seek test?

 

[lhuser]

Sure, let me get it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_kEBEEoDvE

 

[MikeReiner]

I'm pretty sure opening it up would kill it, since its meant to be kept air tight, which is one reason when I did it, as you lot told me, it wouldn't condense in there causing it to blow up

I have seen an open hard drive boot up before.. though it started freaking out once it got some dust on it after a couple days.