"Holzhammermethode" - managed to rescue data off a failing NVMe in my server with a massive hammer (it helped to cool it to allow getting the data off the drive) 😀
@emanuel
Stop! Hammer time.
https://youtu.be/otCpCn0l4Wo
... you probably
@emanuel is the 970 Evo the one that failed, or was it another NVMe?
How did it fail and which NVMe should I not buy in order to avoid having to use a hammer?
@wolf480pl it was indeed a 970evo 2TB (the one under the Hammer :-) . The one pictured is the replacement, a 970evo plus 2TB. That said, I worked that drive hard for 2 years, it powers a 32GB RAM Server with 7 VMs running 24/7 with pretty much everything I host. Mail Server, Nextcloud, Mastodon, many more things. The drive was 70% full and still worked when cooled AND copies were artificially slowed down to <200MB/s.
@emanuel damn, I was hoping a couple of 970 Evos in RAID 1 would last me 5 years without a replacement, but looks like that may not be the case...
Were you still on warranty / terabytes written below the rated TBW endurance?
@wolf480pl once I have time, I ll try to get SMART stat on that drive and will post here.
@wolf480pl oh I forgot. It returned critical sector read errors hmm 1 for every 20GB, usually only on very large files.
@emanuel Then it is more „Eisenhammermethode“ because iron's/steel's thermal properties make those way better materials for heat sinks than wood. 😉
@Aarkon yes, but thats not as fun as this quirky german words ("Holzhammermethode" is similar in meaning to "steamroller tactics")- see https://www.dw.com/en/holzhammermethode/a-6616805
@emanuel I know - if there was something like a profession to build around word play & puns in German*, I'd be tempted change my job right away. I only wanted to point out a minor weakness in this particular one, so nevermind! This was just as serious as your original post. 😉
*other than to to make up annoying commercial texts
@emanuel No more liquid nitrogen ? Use a hammer 🤷♂️ 😂👍
Jeff Allen
@emanuel Very cool. I had the "hard drive in the freezer" trick work on an SSD within the past year.
This is cooler.
@profoundlynerdy thanks a lot. I was surprised how well it worked. I guess it would work well also on SSDs if you strip the chassis and place the iron on the chips directly.
to work as it should or just a 2020‘Covid case mod ... just kidding.
@emanuel
People keep telling me that computers can't think, and yet they seem to respond directly to threats like these...