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RE: I have found the perfect crime! - 10/15/2016 12:49:51 PM

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whoremods I I will draw your attention to this bit bar a complete catastrophic drive failure which almost never happens, but to get at that data (partition)they will require another drive

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RE: I have found the perfect crime! - 10/15/2016 12:55:12 PM

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Of the three computers I've lost to drive failures, one of them headcrashed. Now, if you can suggest a way to retrieve data from a disc that looks like more like a demonstration of the sort of non-euclidean geometry HP Lovecraft used to insist higher beings would use for architecture than a disc, I'm all ears.

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RE: I have found the perfect crime! - 10/15/2016 1:46:48 PM

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Of the three computers I've lost to drive failures, one of them headcrashed. Now, if you can suggest a way to retrieve data from a disc that looks like more like a demonstration of the sort of non-euclidean geometry HP Lovecraft used to insist higher beings would use for architecture than a disc, I'm all ears.

If the disk plates are intact, you can, with little difficulty, take the stack out of a fried drive and install them in the housing of another drive.

Hard drives are magnetic media, and if the drive has not been in proximity to a high gauss magnetic field, the data should be retrievable.

This actually is a common practice with air craft crash investigators, the flight recorders are so badly damaged, they take the disc stack and put it into another drive.

On a side note, upon discovering that drive size was dependent on the number of discs in a stack, I attempted to create a super hard drive....

It was not as simple as it seemed in theory and my attempt failed.

My goal was the first petabyte hard drive (1,024 Terabytes.)

However, now that solid state drives have hit the market, and being the hardware tech/nerd/evil scientist type that I am, I have given up on the petabyte magnetic media drive and am working on a design for a 100 petabyte solid state drive.

I am also working on a mother board layout that would basically be two individual computers in one case.

Dont ask me why this seems to be a good idea, because to be honest, I am doing it to take a break from a home brew ham radio design I am working on.

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RE: I have found the perfect crime! - 10/16/2016 4:54:06 AM

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Well yeah, the magnetic information is probably still there, but how do you read a disc that isn't disc shaped anymore? Short of pounding it back flat with a hammer, I'm not sure what you can in that case. Also, if a disc has been bent by a collision with the read/write head, surely that'll trash some of its content as well?
(Remember how those zip things that were big around the turn of the millennium used to make a crunching sound as the drive gave up and chewed up the cartridge?)

As for a homebrew multi processor PC, have you seen these boards they're doing for the Raspberry Pi that are designed to plug a bunch of the zeros into (I'm assuming) the current model 3 as co processors? Or are you thinking more of two separate motherboards, each with their own hard drive, so you can have two OSs installed discretely from each other, rather than on one partitioned drive?

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