I’m literally a subject matter expert (SME) on Enterprise Storage Arrays and can absolutely attest to ‘hitting it’ being an actual tier 3 support suggestion for spindle drives. It’s still a thing and will continue to be one so long as spindle drives continue to exist.

It was a method to unstick stuck drive platters, but hasn’t worked since HDD manufacturing processes changed a few years ago. May work for certain drives manufacted pre-Covid, but that’s it:

https://datarecovery.com/rd/the-hard-drive-freezer-trick/

Been so long I had forgotten the freezer trick lol. Good memories haha.

Take it out of the Sabrent USB and directly connect it to the system, run lsblk to get the drive id and then check smartmontools using smartctl -H /dev/(whatever disk it is)

This will tell you if the drive is hosed or not.

If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.

Technical Debt:

1. Current company is running one of its main databases on Oracle 13 because they refuse to pay Uncle Larry a dime, but also cannot migrate it (Oracle eBusiness Suite EBS).

2. Last company made copies of all customer servers hard drives and kept them in a cold vault. So, they had to maintain systems dating back to the 1980s to current in order to recover data from drives in cold storage. The local data recovery company loved them too as drives freeze up and don’t spin after a while. They went under during Covid citing operational issues.

Was fun having a sun 2 pizzabox, a Sun Ultrasparc 10, an SGI Orion and a series of x86 systems on my desk all the time though.

3. A power company whose name I cannot share insisted on having 5 access and control rooms per power plant (most usually have 2-3 per plant) for redundancy. It drove them to near bankruptcy in the 2010s because of their tech debt trying to keep them all in sync world wide. Coolest part: I setup 20 x 70" Plasma TVs as a single C&C panel for their HQ back in 2007 using 3 Matrox video cards.

Psst… Soy de Mexico, but thanks for playing.

Increases in students from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Brazil, Russia, Georgia, Iran and African nations doesn’t mean ‘everyone’ LMAO.

Chinese solar manufacturers: Thanks Trump!

There’s probably another somewhere, but the only bronze rat that’ll stay stuck in your head forever is the Pratt Rat

edit: Adding history https://www.instagram.com/reel/CGqkG5dHSMP/

After my last trip to Australia, I’ve decided cunt is no longer a profanity. It’s used by Aussies north to south so indiscriminately now.

I hope he is so humiliated by this that he quits driving altogether.

‘Why are you treating me like a criminal?’

Because you entitled drunk driving prick: You WERE a criminal at that moment.

This calls for another Iranian Public Execution!

IRGC: Fuckem all.

Caribou Coffee is preferred in most of Minnesota anyways.

Why a hamster?

A lawyer representing 4chan has repeatedly responded to Ofcom’s legally binding, “dozens of pages” of correspondence by stating it will make “excellent bedding for my pet hamster”.

Still too big for this fool.

Tass: Russian Propaganda

Unreliable news source

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And to think, all of them have to dump their ethnicity and adopt a Han one or ‘disappear’.

https://www.economist.com/china/2026/03/09/there-are-56-ethnicities-in-china-and-55-are-getting-squashed

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