drive repair tips?

[der Mouse]

>> I have a disk drive [with problems].
>> I'm considering taking it apart and lubing the bearing.
> I've done it before, but I find it's not usually worth it, unless you
> can't access data on the drive, and you really need that data.  I'd
> say if that drive is still working, find an identical drive and dd
> the data over.

The main reason I want to do this is not to recover data, even though
the drive is dead -

>> (All the bits from it are safe; live mirroring is great for that.)

but rather for the doing of it.  As I wrote, it's

>> more to gain experience on a throwaway device than to actually
>> recover the drive.

So that when (if) I really need to, I'll have some idea what I'm doing.

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