 Okay, so you guys aren't gonna believe this we're here at Drive Savers these guys they recover data off of drives Phones of 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? That's like asking me if I want to tell you about Synergy synergy to make sharing one mouse and one keyboard between multiple computers so simple and seamless that anyone can use it Check it out now and learn more at the link in the video description 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 thousand point one micron particles per cubic meter of air so it's like Ten thousand times cleaner regular room oh This is hot Here we go Whoa, that's a heavy door So the whole room is positively pressurized They've got I think it's 35 fans running pushing air constantly downward 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 Hi I actually don't know where I'm going cool This is this my station. It's gonna be your station. Yes sick Thank you, is this like a special clean room chair boy I'm okay It's really slippery Okay, maybe your suits like better than mine, but like I'm serious I Hold on Okay Like yeah, this guy can't even sit in a chair. How's he gonna fix a 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 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 we cannot Really it just has like a sensor or something no it has a little nub on the lid Which kind of allow it's a little bit more correct on the accurate and keep it down Oh Interesting so it's not just it's not just a pretty face. It's the lid is actually functional Correct so what you see here this notch right here Sits on the actually oh wow so it actually holds the entire Actuator assembly well down just gives a little pressure Correct oh Interesting so check this out So you've actually got four read write heads because each of these platters can store data on both sides here What else can we say about this so so this guy right here holds these in place? This when it's off right this one we call off-platter parking ramp So the read and write heads actually like are basically like they're flying Over these spinning platters and these are going to you know up to 7200 rpm these days they used to go higher in some cases But on consumer drive this goes up to 7200 rpm And it's basically like that 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 you think 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 shouldn't eat anything in a hard drive Look at my hands are shaking. That's as steady as I could 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 Doh do people typically get this right on their first try? negative Cool. All right. Well, I'm excited then I want to do it and pop that up. Yep Jiggle it loose. Okay. All right. Yeah. Oh, yeah Cool. All right. Let's do that. Put that aside over here. Yeah next step. You're gonna move the actuator stopper Whoa, yeah, you can really feel like when you oh It really 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, it's it keep the head separated Which is a version of this that we had made in-house ourselves Very cool. So what are you gonna do? Slide that between there and try to get that you bet. Did I kill it? Not yet. Not that I know of Is it probably dead now? Possibly, but let's you know what let's let you continue with it like this first. Okay Does it matter which way you go? You want to bring that off close to the edge a little bit Close to the edge. Oh, too far. Oh That's good. Or a little further up. Crap. No, they touched Did they? 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 it. No, you're the bottom one is on the very bottom That's what I'm telling you. 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 goes in one. That's why 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 to come out at the same time Yeah, I gotta switch hands. I didn't think this through Okay, where do I put it? Place it straight down on the table. ESD match. No worries Okay If I just wanted to know for sure if I killed it could we try it? I can tell you right now that we did Oh, I see the head stack is bent. Oh, the tip of the head right here is bent which creased upwards like this So they should be flat out this way right now. So they 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 curls up. What that's gonna do Okay, we're gonna put that into a good drive right now. It's gonna scratch up the bottom of the bottom platter It's gonna scratch up the bottom platter on size zero 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 write 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 want to 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 They're gonna touch a live drop Wow There you are Okay Now what we're gonna do before you even do anything else Yeah We want to label our donor drive. Oh Okay Let's put it DS on there for dry savers. Where right on the magnet here, please? Yes Isn't that redundant if I put it here? Yeah, but you know what? I'm sorry. I don't want to give the customer back his wrong part Right. Okay. I want the wrong actuator image the wrong drive. 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 Yeah, now I put on the comb right? No. Oh crap. Okay. Hold on. Do I take these out first? Correct. Oh My arch nemesis. We meet again. Mr. Cole. Oh, damn it. Hold on and I got to hold this right while I do it That one That one. Okay. Ah, Mr. Cone. We meet again. Did I get it? Good. Good. Oh my god Okay, now what? Put that down on the side. 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 did good. Don't cheat me here. You got to give it to me out of a hundred I'll give you about maybe a sixty-five. Sixty-five? That's kind of high Sixty-five is high? Sixty-five is quite generous Well, that's not that good. Okay, what I do wrong specifically? Just a lot of wiggling? Yes, a lot of wiggling The comb, when you were removing the part, removing the actual off the donor drive Yeah That's basically it But like I said, a lot of people won't know before anybody touches a live drive. It's typically three thousand watts before they get to touch it. That's the first job Right, okay. And that's, this is one reason 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 Wonic 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 great step Okay. Oh, enter's okay. But would K work? Theoretically, yes, right? I would assume so. Let's try it Hey Hey, you learned something today too Hell yeah, man. Oh, what do you guys think? Okay, no cheating. If you're going to 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? It's okay, we're in a clean room Oh, the waiting Wait, hey, hey Is that good? That's good. Green is good Green is good So we are imaging right now So it is telling me it's imaging a 3 square by drive That's your total block count right here. We're right into an 8 terabyte target So it would take 9 hours Roughly, roughly. Now this is how it should work But we consider this a very good first step This is excellent for the physical aspect of the drive So we've seen no even pink so far. No yellow No yellow as of yet. Up as of yet Wait, did you see? Oh Yeah, be roll that. Be roll that So there you have it guys. We're only 0% 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 heads on one of them We knew that the rest of it was good. 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