Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Data Recovery: Hard Drive Platter Swap in Our Lab!" video.

  1. You usually need the exact same model, unfortunately... don't trust me, hope for a direct answer. But as far as I know, HDD manufacturing these days can be so diverse that even if you have same number of platters, same capacity and same brand from the same period, they could be made in different factories with different assemblies.
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  2. Awesome stuff guys, thanks for sharing!
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  3. Steven Qiu T'was from another HDD repair channel, but I can't remember the specific video right now, sorry. Not 100% sure
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  4. Relatively new thing... Western Digital and Samsung have introduced Enterprise level helium filled drives, but that's for 8Tb and up. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10106/western-digital-introduces-its-consumer-helium-drives There's not much in detail on how exactly it works and how it'd affect a repair, but specifically for data recovery it might not make that much of a difference. Seems like the idea of using helium is to reduce drag and vibrations to give the HDD a longer lifespan
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