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Friday, May 9, 2008
Data from shuttle Columbia hard drive recovered
Five years after the shuttle Columbia crashed on re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, data recovery experts at Kroll Ontrack Inc. managed to recover data from a 400-megabyte Seagate hard drive that was on board.
The cracked component was discovered six months after the crash in a dried-up lake bed. But the data recovery team was still able to retrieve 99 percent of the stored information, Computerworld.com said.
A science journal in April published results of tests performed by astronauts on xexon gas which were stored on the hard drive.
If they are that durable, I’m going to take a hammer to the next hard drive I get rid of so no one gets my personal data, even if I think it’s broken.
There’s a slideshow of the damaged hard drive on the Computerworld site. Below is one of the images.
