01.06.10
Save Your Hard Drive Data
Check out this article about how freezing your hard drive can give you that extra time you need to save your data.
The running theory goes, your hard drive might be chugging it’s last death, clicking away its final moments, but there’s a chance you can save your data by freezing whatever parts are loosening up or losing contact together. You see, your hard drive contains a lot of moving parts. After spinning for so long, it’s only natural things can vibrate and get loose. Metal also expands as it gets hotter. Freezing the metal might just force everything back together again.
It sounds so ridiculous, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to prove that it can work, provided it’s a hardware problem and not a software problem.