Reply to post: Re: freezers

So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance

The Dark Side Of The Mind (TDSOTM)

Re: freezers

The freezers work best for worn-out bearings in (relatively) fast spinning drives, while in the XT era the "stiction" (from "static friction") was caused by the heads getting stuck on the platters... In that case, freezing would do only worse.

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