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		degenerate on June 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to inv... I can confirm the freezer trick worked too. This was back before multi-platter high density drives though. I tried it recently with a failed 6TB drives from a friend, and it didn't work.

SOLAR_FIELDS on June 6, 2018 [–]

Yeah this was many years ago. I think the one I did it with was a 250GB from the mid to late 2000's

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