Hol' up - are you in a cleanroom when you crack that thing open at 29:05, Chris? 'Cause I've always heard that HDD platters are so sensitive to particulate that once its case is opened in anything other than a CPU-rated uber-purified cleanroom, the most miniscule nanoparticle of dust has the potential to (eventually) destroy its usefulness.
Purair VLF-48 with brand new filters. Read about it here: www.airscience.com/lib/sitefiles/pdf/SalesLit/Purair-LF-Laminar-Flow-Cabinets.pdf Buy one here: www.fishersci.com/shop/products/vertical-laminar-flow-hood-48/NC0534836 *AND ALWAYS REPLACE THE FILTERS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!* The Purair VLF-48 is more than enough for hard drive data recovery. You get ULPA(fancy acronym!) Filtration, 99.999% efficiency at particle sizes between 0.1 and 0.3 µm. Vertical airflow minimizes turbulence on work surface and flushes contaminants downwards & and away from drive being worked on. The whole bullshit of wearing a spacesuit in a clean room is marketing wankery of the highest order, used by marketing companies masquerading as data recovery companies to justify charging you $3000 for an iPhone charge port repair, or $8,000 for a hard drive head swap. Look at all the other respected labs. HDD Recovery services on youtube, $300datarecovery, desert data recovery... these guys are leaders in their craft, none of these people are wearing astronaut suits while working on hard drives because that's fucking ridiculous. they don't need to. they get their business based on honest sales, positive word of mouth, and doing a damn good job by their customers. not overstated marketing wankery. Class 100 or higher clean rooms are useful for large-scale industrial use. Full clean rooms don't add much use unless you're treating the latest outbreak of smallpox or something. It's just marketing wankery; wankery that has persisted for over 20 years now. :( Good question!
I tested this out, I smoked and had one opened up in use for weeks and nothing happened and I'm seeing this drive platter get dusty as and it still ran flawless I could even see the dust layer covering it and still not one fault. This was ten year ago on a sragate 3.5 HDD.
Chris' accent improved a lot. I don't know if WD is bad across the board but their consumer quality drives leave a lot to be desired. WD Red Pro's have been OK in my DS220j.
Agree on Western Digital not what they used to be that's for sure. Chinese drives seem to fail more forme than before they started to outsource, the Thailand ones I think it was those were okay. I always stuck with hynix back in the day
If for some reason auto clear of Re-lo list fails, the manual option works also very well, of course you know that maybe next video can briefly show users how to do that, all the best, good work friend.
Hello Chris, it's nice to see your methodologies upon recovery! With shaven head you aren't a Pole, you are barren North and South Poles ;) (sorry for a bad joke)
The entire process of replacing heads is carried out in a laminar flow chamber. The air in the chamber is filtered and completely clean, free of any dust particles. NEVER OPEN HARD DRIVES IN HOME CONDITIONS!!! Such attempts always end in disaster for your data!
Purair VLF-48 with brand new filters. The Purair VLF-48 is more than enough for hard drive data recovery. You get ULPA(fancy acronym!) Filtration, 99.999% efficiency at particle sizes between 0.1 and 0.3 µm. Vertical airflow minimizes turbulence on work surface and flushes contaminants downwards & and away from drive being worked on. The whole bullshit of wearing a spacesuit in a clean room is marketing wankery of the highest order, used by marketing companies masquerading as data recovery companies to justify charging you $3000 for an iPhone charge port repair, or $8,000 for a hard drive head swap. Look at all the other respected labs. HDD Recovery services on youtube, $300datarecovery, desert data recovery... none of these people are wearing astronaut suits while working on hard drives. Class 100 or higher clean rooms are useful for large-scale industrial use. Full clean rooms don't add much use unless you're treating the latest outbreak of smallpox or something. It's just marketing wankery; wankery that has persisted for over 20 years now. :( Good question!
You state that the reason for swapping the PCB, was to go from the PATA to SATA. Instead of all of that effort, eeprom movement, why not a PATA to SATA adapter? Does the pc3000 hardware dislike those?
The client's drive was equipped with a USB interface, not PATA. The PC3000 handles both PATA/SATA and USB drives excellently. However, due to its characteristics, the USB interface has certain limitations. For the purpose of the data recovery procedure, it is recommended to replace the PCB with a SATA interface for this family of drives.
@bogumipiskorz2752 Oh I see! I went back and looked at the earlier board footage. I guess I missed the full shots of the pins on the original board. In a lot of the shots the hand placement made it look like a full compliment of standard 2.5" PATA pins/header. Apologies and thanks for the clarification!
@18:19 - The size of the logical sector differ from the logical sector" - "yes" used for encrypted btrfs, like TerraMaster NAS uses maybe? That's just a guess... Many
Wore them when opening up the internals. External components and circuit boards are very rugged and can function with some dirt on 'em. Probably not the same with the disks, don't want a piece of dust bouncing around the chamber at 2k+ rpm.
I’ve had nothing but issues with Western Digital external drives have one at the moment which all of a sudden became uninitiated it works but just won’t be recognised or initiated proper annoying & will be buying a Seagate to replace it & see if someone can get all my music, photos & memories from the WD so I haven’t lost it all.
For me it's the exact opposite and it's the Seagate drives that failed the most. Last week I bought a brand new 4TB blue one for my camera security system and it failed only after 3 days of use (62 hours according to SMART data) and 80% of all the data there (220 GB) became unreadable with roughly 3600+ pending and uncorrectable sectors and the number only went up, until it reached a point where the entire drive locked itself (can't write to it anymore) and connecting it to a computer completely freezes everything to the point you have to unplug it to regain control. Running their own tools from a USB boot drive (Seatools) fails both the short and long test, due to high number of errors. The previous one lasted 7 months, then one day it prevented Windows from booting up, again, more than 600+ bad sectors. WD didn't fail me so far, both RED and GREEN versions so I guess it's different for everyone. One of the drives has had 1 bad sector but that shows as reallocated and has been like that for 2 years. (The drive is now almost 6 years old!)
The entire process of replacing heads is carried out in a laminar flow chamber. The air in the chamber is filtered and completely clean, free of any dust particles. NEVER OPEN HARD DRIVES IN HOME CONDITIONS!!! Such attempts always end in disaster for your data!
I don't know about the imminent death part, I once bent the entire platter half of the cover on a 500 GB WD blue open, jammed it in a hard drive enclosure and copied data to it for a couple hours. we ended up just scratching the platters with a screw driver because we wanted to go get lunch and it wouldn't die.
Hol' up - are you in a cleanroom when you crack that thing open at 29:05, Chris? 'Cause I've always heard that HDD platters are so sensitive to particulate that once its case is opened in anything other than a CPU-rated uber-purified cleanroom, the most miniscule nanoparticle of dust has the potential to (eventually) destroy its usefulness.
Purair VLF-48 with brand new filters.
Read about it here: www.airscience.com/lib/sitefiles/pdf/SalesLit/Purair-LF-Laminar-Flow-Cabinets.pdf
Buy one here: www.fishersci.com/shop/products/vertical-laminar-flow-hood-48/NC0534836
*AND ALWAYS REPLACE THE FILTERS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE!*
The Purair VLF-48 is more than enough for hard drive data recovery. You get ULPA(fancy acronym!) Filtration, 99.999% efficiency at particle sizes between 0.1 and 0.3 µm. Vertical airflow minimizes turbulence on work surface and flushes contaminants downwards & and away from drive being worked on.
The whole bullshit of wearing a spacesuit in a clean room is marketing wankery of the highest order, used by marketing companies masquerading as data recovery companies to justify charging you $3000 for an iPhone charge port repair, or $8,000 for a hard drive head swap.
Look at all the other respected labs. HDD Recovery services on youtube, $300datarecovery, desert data recovery... these guys are leaders in their craft, none of these people are wearing astronaut suits while working on hard drives because that's fucking ridiculous. they don't need to. they get their business based on honest sales, positive word of mouth, and doing a damn good job by their customers. not overstated marketing wankery.
Class 100 or higher clean rooms are useful for large-scale industrial use. Full clean rooms don't add much use unless you're treating the latest outbreak of smallpox or something. It's just marketing wankery; wankery that has persisted for over 20 years now. :(
Good question!
@@rossmanngroup This response has led me to nominate Louis Rossman for President and his employees for his cabinet.
@@untpython8480Spell it with a single 'n' and he'll never get in.
I tested this out, I smoked and had one opened up in use for weeks and nothing happened and I'm seeing this drive platter get dusty as and it still ran flawless I could even see the dust layer covering it and still not one fault. This was ten year ago on a sragate 3.5 HDD.
@@rossmanngroup 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼This is true!
Man Louis is looking different then I remember
Nah just Clinton has glasses now
That's what Louis looks like when he gets a weak head
must be the haircut
Ah yes, the type of content I originally subscribed for all those years ago.
Because other stuff is just booring, right? GTF outta here boy.
Louis: Hey Kris! how many screen you need?
Kris: Yes
Thanks Chris
Chris' accent improved a lot. I don't know if WD is bad across the board but their consumer quality drives leave a lot to be desired. WD Red Pro's have been OK in my DS220j.
Agree on Western Digital not what they used to be that's for sure. Chinese drives seem to fail more forme than before they started to outsource, the Thailand ones I think it was those were okay. I always stuck with hynix back in the day
If for some reason auto clear of Re-lo list fails, the manual option works also very well, of course you know that maybe next video can briefly show users how to do that, all the best, good work friend.
Would love a tier list of drives. Putting a NAS together this month.
@@Premier-Media-Group Do you mean spinning media? if so WD gold are very reliable followed by WD red, or Seagate iron wolf.
@Richard-gl7xu yeah, spinning is all I can really afford atm (to populate a decent NAS anyway).
I've heard Iron Wolfs can be hit/miss...
Glad I got into Adaxum during the presale. The project has some promising elements.
The only thing I love more than a Rossman rant is a repair video. Nice
31:30 What are you looking for on the head pack from the bad drive?
Thanks for the tutorial!
Beauty! Thanks Chris!
Post-haircut arc Chris
Hello Chris, it's nice to see your methodologies upon recovery!
With shaven head you aren't a Pole, you are barren North and South Poles ;)
(sorry for a bad joke)
Interesting, just been looking into PC3000 hardware especially the standalone portable n software data recovery gear. Looks impressive
Anyone can tell me how much this hardware cost? Probably a lot since I couldn't find any pricing info last time I searched
@@Nostalgia_Realm $17000.
ADX has a unique angle with its E-commerce focus. Glad I got in during the presale.
The ADX tokenomics look reasonable, and the presale seems like a good entry point.
Adaxum’s approach to integrating E-commerce and DeFi is interesting. Took a position in the presale.
Nice work Chris
Keeping an eye on Adaxum. The project seems promising enough to have potential upside.
lol the rage in these comments.
gg man. for me it was entertainment, so A+
Thanks Chris! I'm wondering how are you able to safely open it like this without a clean room?
It appears he is in a different room while he had it open. Likely fixes the head just to transfer data to a new drive.
It looks like he's in a clean room while he has the drive open. Note the stainless steel workstation.
The entire process of replacing heads is carried out in a laminar flow chamber. The air in the chamber is filtered and completely clean, free of any dust particles. NEVER OPEN HARD DRIVES IN HOME CONDITIONS!!! Such attempts always end in disaster for your data!
Purair VLF-48 with brand new filters.
The Purair VLF-48 is more than enough for hard drive data recovery. You get ULPA(fancy acronym!) Filtration, 99.999% efficiency at particle sizes between 0.1 and 0.3 µm. Vertical airflow minimizes turbulence on work surface and flushes contaminants downwards & and away from drive being worked on.
The whole bullshit of wearing a spacesuit in a clean room is marketing wankery of the highest order, used by marketing companies masquerading as data recovery companies to justify charging you $3000 for an iPhone charge port repair, or $8,000 for a hard drive head swap.
Look at all the other respected labs. HDD Recovery services on youtube, $300datarecovery, desert data recovery... none of these people are wearing astronaut suits while working on hard drives.
Class 100 or higher clean rooms are useful for large-scale industrial use. Full clean rooms don't add much use unless you're treating the latest outbreak of smallpox or something. It's just marketing wankery; wankery that has persisted for over 20 years now. :(
Good question!
@@rossmanngroupwhat about particles from your skin or your arm hair?
Joined the Adaxum presale early. Hoping it turns out to be a good long-term move.
Dobra Krzysztofie, z ze starych dyskow na IDE w których padła elektronika dał byś rade uratować dane?
Hi everyone, Adaxum seems like a project with potential. I’m keeping an eye on it after joining the presale.
The Adaxum project has some strong points. Took a position while the presale is still open.
Did you have to move that chip over to the SATA board because it contains the bad block table?
The WD slow read bug was quite annoying to find out on my pc, didnt think that problem was the harddrive for the longest time
Took a chance on Adaxum during the presale. Let’s see how it plays out.
You state that the reason for swapping the PCB, was to go from the PATA to SATA. Instead of all of that effort, eeprom movement, why not a PATA to SATA adapter? Does the pc3000 hardware dislike those?
The client's drive was equipped with a USB interface, not PATA. The PC3000 handles both PATA/SATA and USB drives excellently. However, due to its characteristics, the USB interface has certain limitations. For the purpose of the data recovery procedure, it is recommended to replace the PCB with a SATA interface for this family of drives.
@bogumipiskorz2752 Oh I see! I went back and looked at the earlier board footage. I guess I missed the full shots of the pins on the original board. In a lot of the shots the hand placement made it look like a full compliment of standard 2.5" PATA pins/header.
Apologies and thanks for the clarification!
@18:19 - The size of the logical sector differ from the logical sector" - "yes" used for encrypted btrfs, like TerraMaster NAS uses maybe? That's just a guess...
Many
How bad is SK Hynix?
Saving this for later
Just curious, shouldn't you use gloves working on these components?
Wore them when opening up the internals. External components and circuit boards are very rugged and can function with some dirt on 'em. Probably not the same with the disks, don't want a piece of dust bouncing around the chamber at 2k+ rpm.
Thanks for the clarification! 👍🏻
pozdrowienia dla akcentu :)
to nasz, nie?
@@2vs1 Zgadza się chłopaki :D
;)
mimo że zagranicznik to dalej swojak
I’ve had nothing but issues with Western Digital external drives have one at the moment which all of a sudden became uninitiated it works but just won’t be recognised or initiated proper annoying & will be buying a Seagate to replace it & see if someone can get all my music, photos & memories from the WD so I haven’t lost it all.
For me it's the exact opposite and it's the Seagate drives that failed the most. Last week I bought a brand new 4TB blue one for my camera security system and it failed only after 3 days of use (62 hours according to SMART data) and 80% of all the data there (220 GB) became unreadable with roughly 3600+ pending and uncorrectable sectors and the number only went up, until it reached a point where the entire drive locked itself (can't write to it anymore) and connecting it to a computer completely freezes everything to the point you have to unplug it to regain control. Running their own tools from a USB boot drive (Seatools) fails both the short and long test, due to high number of errors. The previous one lasted 7 months, then one day it prevented Windows from booting up, again, more than 600+ bad sectors. WD didn't fail me so far, both RED and GREEN versions so I guess it's different for everyone. One of the drives has had 1 bad sector but that shows as reallocated and has been like that for 2 years. (The drive is now almost 6 years old!)
The ADX presale is progressing well. Glad I got my tokens before it’s too late.
Tabs lowered Chris !
bro what hair
oof
@46:54 - me too, sir, me too.
Any hope to recover 2015 macbook ssds ?
There’s always a chance, but without seeing it, it’s hard to say for sure. Please send it to us, our estimate is free.
If only I had the tools and knowledge to repair my sata hdd...
Haircut? It looks more like... hair removal or hair extermination ! 😊
@52:08 -really???
REALLY?
That's what nobody does. At its sane mind.
Upvote turned onto downvote suddenly.
Adaxum seems like a solid project, though I’m keeping my expectations in check.
Happy with my decision to join the Adaxum presale. Let’s see how it performs in the long run.
The entire process of replacing heads is carried out in a laminar flow chamber. The air in the chamber is filtered and completely clean, free of any dust particles. NEVER OPEN HARD DRIVES IN HOME CONDITIONS!!! Such attempts always end in disaster for your data!
I don't know about the imminent death part, I once bent the entire platter half of the cover on a 500 GB WD blue open, jammed it in a hard drive enclosure and copied data to it for a couple hours. we ended up just scratching the platters with a screw driver because we wanted to go get lunch and it wouldn't die.
Took a measured position in Adaxum. Hoping the project delivers on its promises.
ADX is worth a look if you’re exploring new projects this year.
Took a closer look at Adaxum and decided to take a small position in the presale.
Adaxum’s presale is selling out quickly. Might be worth a closer look for those interested.
ADX could be one of those slow burners that deliver over time. Secured my tokens early.
Feeling cautiously optimistic about Adaxum’s potential. Got my ADX tokens today.
Adaxum is still early, but it has the potential to grow into something significant.
Got into the Adaxum presale early. Hoping this turns out to be a good investment.
Hey, check this one out: Adaxum is gaining traction. It might be worth considering while the presale is live.
Adaxum is still under the radar, but it could gain momentum soon.
Hey all, Adaxum is an interesting project that could have potential in the E-commerce space.