My external Maxtor drive won’t be detected on my linux machine. I have the power cord all tight and I have firewire that I think that came with the Maxtor drive itself. It just won’t be recognized. Any help.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    From the article I linked to above:

    For instance, a side effect of freezing a hard drive is corrosion, caused by the transformation of water vapor inside the drive to ice crystals. Upon removal from the freezer, that ice will melt and foul the delicate electrical components inside the drive. If the drive spins up before the ice has melted, catastrophic damage will occur and data may be permanently lost.

    ACS Data Recovery Services provides a bit more detail: As data storage densities have grown higher and higher, the height a head flies above the spinning hard disk platter has steadily decreased. In modern drives, the clearance between a head and the disk is is slightly less than 10 nanometers—or about four times the width of a single strand of DNA. If any ice crystals form, chances are that head will crash into them.

    I mean, if the data isn’t something that you’re gonna try to recover by other means, sure, but it can cause damage.