Hosted by: Scott Moulton of MyHardDriveDied.com and Steve Cherubino of Podnutz Topics discussed: New Seagate SSD (Solid State Drive) Large drive, looks like a blade server, about 200GB in size Handles 30,000 Read operations per second and 25,000 Write operations per second SSD Intel-X25M handles 5,000 Read operations per second, priced around 1TB for $2,500, […]

Hosted by: Scott Moulton of MyHardDriveDied.com and Steve Cherubino of Podnutz


Topics discussed:


New Seagate SSD (Solid State Drive)


Large drive, looks like a blade server, about 200GB in size


Handles 30,000 Read operations per second and 25,000 Write operations per second


SSD Intel-X25M handles 5,000 Read operations per second, priced around 1TB for $2,500, 512GB for $1,200


A normal 72rpm SATA drive handles 90 operations per second


SCSI drives handle 180 operations per second, they are more reliable and intended for servers


ColorSpace UDMA


World’s fastest & most advanced memory card backup


ioDrive


The ioDrive is a revolutionary new solid state technology that dramatically increases bandwidth and application performance


Solid State device on a card, high speed (server based device), made by Fusion-iO


Flash on card, has its own processor for faster data processing


Handles 80,000 operations per second, largest ioDrive available is 80GB


Review by Steve Wozniak


Phreaknic

Second longest computer conference (13th year, approximately 250 participants)


October 30th-31st, 2009 (Nashville, TN)


DIY Hard Drive Diagnostics: Understanding a Broken Drive

< Link to the Speech Slides > PDF: Big – 39 Megs


MHDD

Is the most popular freeware program for low-level HDD diagnostics


Chip Quik SMD Removal Kit


Low melting point soldering tool


YouTube Video à SMT Soldering Class (Courtesy of: CuriousInventor.com)


YouTube Video à How and WHY to Solder Correctly


Heat Resistant Tape


Protects the motherboard from soldering heat


Hard Drive Motor Problems


< Link to the Speech Slides > PDF: Slides 71 thru 79


Companies that provide Data Recovery Tools & Services


HDRCOnline (India)


SalvationDATA (China)


Question:


Blaine


Q: Does Harmonic Vibration causes performance degradation in modern hard drives?


A: Scott ventures to say “No”, drives are supposed to adjust to their own environment; heat may cause expansion but small vibration will no degrade the performance.


Q: Can you please compare MHDD to SpinRite?


A: MHDD is free, uses a remap function (moves bad sectors to bad blocks section).

SpinRite reads bad sectors and will run complex read algorithms trying to recover such bad sector, writes to the same drive

Media Tools Pro writes to a different destination drive (much better than SpinRite)


Data Recovery Classes


http://www.myharddrivedied.com/presentations_classes/


Notes by Jorge Hernandez of 123ComputerRepair.com