[mythtv-users] failing hard drive - advice on recovering specific recordings - mythlink perhaps

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/28/2014 12:29 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
 > The only one that makes any sense is bearing failure due to
 > interference issues.

On 6/28/2014 1:01 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
> I have no idea if you ever had physic classes but cold metal
> contracts and hot metal expands.

If a rotating part heats up and expands, causing it to rub against 
another stationary or rotating part that it is not supposed to, we call 
that an "interference issue"



 > If it has old type of bearing cooling by freezing it will allow to
 > work for an extended time.

No. Just cooling it will allow it to continue to function. Freezing it 
is simply a bad idea. You're going from one extreme to the opposite 
extreme, and the hard drive is not designed to operate in either.