{"id":8905,"date":"2006-05-01T01:26:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T01:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8905"},"modified":"2006-05-01T01:26:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T01:26:35","slug":"data-in-the-deep-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8905","title":{"rendered":"Data in the Deep Freeze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When good drives go bad, it breaks your heart, doesn&#8217;t it? Especially since few of us back up as methodically or religiously as we tell our children and coworkers to do. There is a growing repository of tech tricks and folk hacks for breathing life into a seemingly dead drive, from doing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackaday.com\/entry\/1234000840067578\/\" target=\"new\">platter transplant<\/a> to giving your drive a few meaningful whacks with your hand. But freezing the ol&#8217; 1s and 0s? That was a new one on me. <\/p>\n<p> Apparently, if your drive is not spinning up, you can try putting it in a zip-loc bag, freeze it overnight, and then, reconnect it and try it again. The trick has been <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/5100-6255-5029761-2.html\" target=\"new\">posted to Tech Republic<\/a> and numerous techies have chimed in to verify that it does work, in more than a few cases. Cool (literally). <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\" target=\"new\">Lifehacker<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When good drives go bad, it breaks your heart, doesn&#8217;t it? Especially since few of us back up as methodically or religiously as we tell our children and coworkers to do. There is a growing repository of tech tricks and folk hacks for breathing life into a seemingly dead drive, from doing a platter transplant &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8905\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Data in the Deep Freeze?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}