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Originally Posted by ncis_uk
This is true. I had a hard drive arm mechanical motion sensor die on me once at work and the tech guy fixed it by buying an identical drive from ebay and swapping out the actual drives. Though he did work for 'a government' data mining organization before he came to us.
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That must have been a tricky operation. hard drives are assembled in super clean rooms. Much cleaner than hospital operating rooms. Head clearance is measured in microns, and a speck of dirt looks like a boulder to the read head.
I'll bet your employer paid big bucks for that recovery.
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