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Cold Storage - hard drive update
MAKE Magazine — Here we have an update from Pete, a hockey loving MAKE Online loving, storage professional and his experiment to freeze a hard drive in his backyard ice rink for 100 days. This one has a couple of adventures, chainsaw, time lapse photography and the video of the big moment. How would you recover Pete's family photos and financial records? What were your cabin fever projects this year? What are your kids doing for their science fair projects? Share your ideas in the comments, and contribute your photos and video to the MAKE Flickr pool. Read more | ...

Do not freeze your Seagate hard drive
CrunchGear — Seagate manager Pete Steege tried to store his Seagate Go 320GB hard drive in ice for 100 days in order to prove that Seagate drives can withstand all manner of torture. Sadly, it didn’t quite make it. When he cut the drive out of his ice rink (!!) he cut the bag which wet the drive. Plugging it in resulted in a device failure and absolute proof that you shouldn’t drop your drives into freezing pond in early November.