Seagate: It takes a licking…

I was amazed to see a post on Slashdot about a disk drive that was on board the space shuttle Columbia when it exploded. Investigators found “a 400 MB Seagate hard drive … in the sort of shape you think it would be in after being in an explosive fire and then hurled to earth from several miles up with a ferocious impact.” In an impressive feat of data recovery, the Kroll Ontrack firm was able to pull 90% of the data off, helping complete a complex scientific experiment. Cool.