<div dir="ltr">If you go with the freezer route, seal the drive in a ziploc bag (you may need some RTV or other sealant to ensure the bag is sealed around the<div>cables, as you'll want to run the drive while its cold) so the drive doesn't get condensate throughout when you pull it out of the freezer. Some</div><div>desiccant in the bag would be helpful (could be rice or silica gel).</div><div><br><div>It also could be further helpful to start with the bagged drive in a warm oven (not over 125 F) to drive moisture out and into the desiccant, followed by </div><div>a graduated transition to the freezer (or the refrigerator, if sufficient). Don't just throw it directly from the oven into the freezer!</div><div><br></div><div>The cloud is handy, but don't forget to back it up. I use OneDrive (as part of my Office 365 account), and use sync software on my NAS to sync</div><div>the OneDrive. The NAS then backs up to BackBlaze B2 buckets.</div><div><br></div><div><div>-Peter</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:31 AM old dirtbeard via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net" target="_blank">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Tim,<div><br></div><div>I think you got some good advice on what to try to retrieve the data, and your last sentence is the solution:</div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1560px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div><div id="gmail-m_8419009992166815097gmail-m_-6816539159168423989gmail-:9p" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-m_8419009992166815097gmail-m_-6816539159168423989gmail-:9o" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br> Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to deal with this PITA process. <br></div><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div>I would sign-up today for Google or O365 and move everything to One Drive or Google Drive.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div><br></div><div>doug</div></div></div><div style="border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px;padding:0px;width:auto;background:rgb(242,242,242);margin:0px"></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:26 AM Tim . via Shop-talk <<a href="mailto:shop-talk@autox.team.net" target="_blank">shop-talk@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT guys in this group.....</div>
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I bought three 512GB flash drives for archiving here at work. One locked up in each of our offices and one for me to add to files as necessary as files are amended. They have approximately 450GB on them.</div>
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One of the three failed as soon as I finished filling it. I bought a different brand and made a replacement copy for the safe in our Madison office. A second, the same brand as the first one that failed is locked up in our MKE office and will also be replaced
now because the third one (the one that has amended archived files) is also failing. I am having a hard time retrieving the amended files before this drive takes a final crap on me. It took over 15 hours to pull one 87MB file from the dying drive. I can't
even attempt to pull more than one file at a time. Not that this should matter, but the files are mixed word, pdf, saved outlook emails and miscellaneous audio or video files and possibly other items. </div>
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What I am wondering/hoping is that someone might know of a solution to this nearly impossible retrieval process. Or am I just screwed here? </div>
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Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to deal with this PITA process. </div>
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