okay so you guys aren't going to believe this we're here at drive savers these guys they recover data off of
drives um phones the clean rooms over here basically if it's got data on it
these guys recover it and they they turn to me and
they're like look we know you're not here for very long but i mean we don't normally do this as part
of the tour but do you want to get do you want to get suited up and do you want to rip apart a
hard drive and do an actuator swap in a real hard drive in a real clean room and
i'm like what kind of stupid question is that
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hell tell us i'm trying to dedicate should i do that oh we're making a face
okay you know what i'm just gonna i'm gonna be a nice nice youtuber so
inside here it's certified to be less than a hundred
thousand point one micron particles
per cubic meter of air
so it's like 10 000 times cleaner regular room
oh this is hot
here we go oh that's a heavy door
so the whole room is positively pressurized
they've got uh i think it's 35 fans
running pushing air constantly downward
look at it look at this stuff SSD pcb you know no big deal
it's freaking crazy
one and a half terabyte forensic one terabyte target
two terabyte targets dang this place is big how are you doing
hi hi um i actually don't know where i'm going
cool is this my station this is going to be
your station yes sick come on up
thank you is this like a special clean room chair it is they are all classic
i'm okay it's really slippery
okay maybe your suit's like better than mine but like
i'm serious
okay hold on okay it's like yeah this guy can't even
sit in a chair how is he gonna fix the hard drive look some of us don't do data
recovery every day okay he's like this is the most boring part
like if i bleed in here is it a is it a contamination problem
in here the theory is that it is so
clean that i don't need to seal the drive back
up is that right like can i just run it open correct can we run this one without
the lid on just to show it doing it we cannot drive
really it just has like a sensor or something no it has a little nub on the
lid which kind of allows puts a little bit more pressure on the actuator to
keep it down so level oh
interesting so it's not just uh it's not just a pretty face it's
the lid is actually functional right so what you see here this notch right
here sits on the actuator oh wow so it
actually holds the entire actuator assembly well down
just gives you a little pressure from a little wall correct oh
interesting so check this out so you've actually got four reed right heads
because each of these platters can store data on both sides here uh what else can
we say about this so so this guy right here holds these in
place when it's off correct this is what we call the off platter parking ramp so the
reed and right heads actually like are basically like they're flying
over these spinning platters and these are going at you know up to 7 200 RPM
these days they used to go higher in some cases but on consumer drive this goes up to 7
200 RPM and it's basically like a like a fly flying around in a hurricane like 12
inches off the ground like it's like it's stupid so anytime you're not
actively reading or writing data you want them like out of the way because if
these contact there then you got to send your drive to drive
savers period and anything they touched they ain't
getting that back actually that's one of the scenarios
where you might have to do what we're about to do which is an actuator swap
where if it accidentally makes contact the metal shards inside are so damaging
that they could just tear apart these tiny fragile heads
okay hit me with the next step oh it doesn't say do not eat on it but that is
definitely desiccant and you definitely should need it you should need anything in a hard drive look at my hands are
shaking that's as steady as i can hold it i'll just get some two-handed
assistance in there thank you all i would have to do is drop
this screw conveniently non-ferrous oh probably for a reason there's magnets
in here do people typically get this right on
their first try negative
cool all right well i'm excited then i want to do it i'm going to pop that up
yup a little bit jiggle it loose okay all right good yeah oh yeah cool all
right let's do that put that inside over here yeah next step
you're gonna remove the actuator stopper whoa yeah you can really feel like when
you oh it like snaps into place there okay
and the stopper is this black guy right here right okay you're gonna hold that
right there without letting it fall off yeah and get this
transport cone yeah and keep the head separated which is a version of this
that we had made in-house ourselves
very cool so what are you going to do keep that slide that between there and
try to get the battery did i kill it not yet not that i know um
is it probably dead now possibly but you know what let's let you
continue with it like this first okay it doesn't matter which way you go no
you want to bring that off close to the edge a little bit closer oh too far right there's good or
a little crap no they touched yeah
i am sweating up a storm in here
this is so stressful see you're not putting the bottom one in one i am in no
you're the bottom one is on the very bottom
oh no i didn't yeah i didn't get that i thought they all had to go in one oh no
yeah the bottom one that's why um let's try it again sorry
about that okay well if your guys's goal was to
make this look hard and like we should let professionals do it then mission
accomplished i suppose sure whatever no problem can i have the
pliers i'm weak
and hold the bag at the same time because all of it has not the same question yeah i gotta switch hands i
didn't think this through okay
where did i put it
okay if i just wanted to know for sure if i
killed it could we try it i could tell you right now that we did oh i see the
headstack is bent oh oh the tip of the head right here is bent which is creased
upwards like this so they should go flat out this way
right now just really flat this way you got it coming up like this here have a
look at that pillow it's the bottom one it curls up a bit it goes up what that's
gonna do okay put that into a good drive right now it's gonna scratch up the
bottom of the bottom platter on size 0. so now when we
started this video the intent was to just take a platter
out of a working drive put it back in and demonstrate that it still worked
what we're ending up with is that in order to fix this drive we need a donor
drive because this is actually a very common failure i mean not an idiot opening your
drive and bending your read head and right head or whatever but just just a
platter crash failed actuator assembly thank you and i'm gonna try this again
but like super more carefully this time and i know how the combs work all right
i'm gonna try and be more organized about these this time so this is step
one i wanna do it right this time
i don't like failing at stuff so you've done i was told over 50 000 of
these whatever the boss man says
oh new trainees they got to do about 3 000 before they touch a customer product
wow there you are okay now what we're going
to do before you even do anything else yeah we want to label our donor drawing
oh okay let's put a ds on there for drive savers
where right on the magnet here please ds
isn't that redundant if i put it here yeah but you know what it's very simple
i'm sorry i don't want to give the customer back his wrong part right okay
the wrong actuator energy while we're driving got it okay let me think hold on this guy right
no no oh shoot hold on let me think oh no this guy correct okay
man the pressure's on i feel like this is like you know the ninth inning of the big
game or whatever like i i yeah now i i put on the comb right
no oh crap okay hold on do i take these out first great ah
my arch nemesis we meet again not quite yet mr oh damn it hold on
and i gotta hold this right while i do it
that one okay ah mr comb
we meet again
okay did i get it you're good you're bold ah
oh my god
okay now that down on the what
on its side what does that mean just flat on the table somewhere
oh okay
okay you watched it what do you think are my odds uh
i think you got a pretty good chance
come on you get you don't don't don't cheat me here
you gotta give it to me out of a hundred i'll give you about maybe a 65. 65.
that's kind of high 65 is high 65 is quite generous
oh well that's not that good okay what i do
wrong specifically just a lot of wiggling yeah a lot of wiggling
the cone when you're removing the part remove the actuator off the donor drive
yeah that's basically it
but like i said a lot of people you know before anybody touches a live drive and
typically three thousand swap before they get to the customer's job right
okay and that's this is one of the reasons why right
oh man my hands are still shaking like crazy
i would say i've never been more stressed to find out if a hard drive
works but i definitely have
anyone who's seen the wanick server video will know that
it's there okay so it's detected but that doesn't tell us that much does it
it tells us that's a good that's a great step okay oh enter's okay
but would k work theoretically yes right
i would sue so let's try it hey hey you learned something today too
hell yeah man oh what do you guys think okay okay no cheating if you're gonna
leave a comment on the video guessing whether i got it or not you
have to do it now you can't do it after
that's cheating wait we didn't clean the platters does that matter okay we're in the clean room
oh the waiting wait hey hey
is that good that's good green is good green is good so we are everything right
now so it is telling me it's imaging a three terabyte drive
that's your total block count right here we're right into a eight terabyte target
yeah someone take nine hours roughly approximately now this is how it should
work but we consider this a very good first step this is very this is
excellent for the physical aspect of the drive so we saw we've seen no even pink
so far no yellow and no yellow as of yet
up as of yet wait did you see oh
so there you have it guys we're only zero percent of the way through so you
know it's hardly completely conclusive but we are tentatively calling the operation a
success which is really exciting it's all green so far
however i do need to be very clear that this was a best case scenario we had two
working drives that had never been opened before so even though
i personally broke the the heads on one of them we knew that
the rest of it was good there was no firmware uh corruption there was no
media damage there was no heat damage or
whatever else these guys might deal with on a on a daily basis
but i'm still really excited about it and i'm still
really grateful that i got the opportunity to try this out
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