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okay so you guys aren't gonna believe this we're here at Dr savers these guys they recover data off of drives phones the clean rooms over here basically if it's got data on it these guys recover it and they turn to me 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 toilet do you want to get do you want to get suited up and you want to rip apart our hard drive and do an actuator swap it 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 makes 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 I'm trying to dictate we're making a face okay you know I'm just gonna you're gonna be a nice nice new tumor so inside here it's certified to be less than a hundred thousand point one micron particles per cubic meter of air so it's like ten thousand times cleaner regulars oh this is hot here we go well that's a heavy door so the whole room is positively pressurized they've got I think it's thirty five fans running pushing air constantly downward look at that 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 good at pure sake yes sick thank you is this like a special cleanroom chair boy I'm okay it's really slippery okay maybe your suits like better than mine but like I'm serious okay hello okay so yeah this guy can't even sit in a chair how is he gonna fix a hard trip 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 that 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 one has a little nub on the lid interesting so it's not just it's not just a pretty face it's so the lid is actually functional Wow so it actually holds the entire actuator assembly well it down 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 when it's off 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 these goes up to 7,200 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 any time you're not actively reading or writing data you want them like out of the way because if these contact there then you gotta send your drive to drive savers Tereus and anything they touched you think you ain't 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 shouldn't eat it you should need anything in a hard drive this is 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 nonferrous oh probably for a reason there's magnets in here duh do people typically get this right on their first try cool all right well I'm excited then I want to do it you can pop that up yep okay yeah whoa yeah you can really feel it like when you wear like snaps into place there okay and the stopper is this black guy right here right okay right there without a fall off yeah and get this yeah keep the head separated which is a version of this that we had made in-house ourselves very cool so we're you want to keep that slide that between there and try to get that in your batter zone did I kill it not yet I know okay is it probably dead now first okay doesn't matter which way you go no they touched yeah I am sweating up a storm in here this is so stressful so you're not putting the bottom one in one no you're the bottom one is on the very bottom oh no I didn't yeah I didn't get that I thought they all had to go in one that's why okay well if you're guys this 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 a fire suit I'm weak yeah I gotta switch hands I didn't think this through okay okay if I just wanted to know for sure if I killed it could be try it I could tell you right now that we did oh I see the head ii fit tip with the head right here at fit which is a piece of upwards like this so they should go you flat out this way right now it's really flat between you got it coming up like this here have a look at that fell that's the bottom one it curls up a bit girls up what that's gonna do okay good drive right now it's gonna scratch up the bottom pull it on the bottom platter for the bottom platter on 5-0 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 red head and right 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 it's tough so you've done I was told over 50,000 of these new trainees they got to do about three thousand before they touch a customer product at the live Wow okay oh okay doesn't that redundant if I put it here yeah but you know what they're skipping sorry I don't want to give the customer back is wrong part okay got it okay let me think hold on this guy right no no oh shoot hold on let me think oh no this guy right okay man the pressures 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 Jonathan I take these out first great huh my arch nemesis we meet again mr. Cole damn it hold on and I got to hold this right while I do it that one ah mr. comb we meet again oh my god okay now what on its side what does that mean okay okay you watched it what do you think are my odds come on you got neither don't don't don't cheat me here yeah give it to me out of 165 that's got a high sixty-five is high oh well that's not that good okay what'd I do wrong specifically okay 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 Wanek server video will know that it's there okay so it's detective but that doesn't tell us that much does it okay Oh Andrews okay but would K work theoretically yes right I would so let's try it hey hey you learn something today - hell yeah man Oh what do you guys think okay okay no cheating if you're gonna 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 all the waiting wait hey is that good good that's good Green is good we serve I Drive the total walk out right here right into a terabyte target yeah but so it took nine hours no well we consider this a very good first step very excellent for the physical aspect everybody so we saw we've seen no even pink so far no yellow head no yellow as it yes oh yeah wait did you sit oh okay yeah beer all of that beer all of 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 is 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 the heads on one of them we knew that the rest of it was good there was no firmware corruption there was no media damage there was no heat damage or whatever else these guys might deal with on a on a daily basis but I'm still really excited about it and I'm still really grateful that I got the opportunity to try this out and you know I'm also really grateful to Squarespace for sponsoring this video Squarespace lets you build your own beautiful website you just pick one of their gorgeous templates start filling in your own text your own images whatever it is you want Squarespace has a template that'll work perfectly for you so whether you're creating a website for a restaurant a local sports team that you run or you want to create your own online store every Squarespace site includes their commerce module Squarespace is the way to go so head over to squarespace.com slash ltte we're gonna have that linked in the video description and try it out today if you need some help they've got 24/7 tech support and the trial is free that squarespace.com slash ltte and if you use our link you can also save 10% so thanks for watching guys if you dislike this video then you pretty cleat kind of suck but if you like this video hit that like button yet subscribe maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured I don't know hard drives also love link to drive say down there who those guys were totally badasses for bringing us in here also while you're down there you can check out our merch storage has cool shirts like the one I'm totally not going to show you because it totally covered in this suit and we've got a link to our community forum which you should totally join