Smoke particles are microscopic particles that have a strong tendency to float in the air for a long time. Some of these particles are even less than the width of human hair, but can cause serious mechanical or electronic hard drive internal. The choice of data recovery services can recover lost data from the failed hard drives. In the absence of an updated and valid backup, these services can recover almost all data from the physical storage media.
Smoke particles can affect the hard drive in the following ways:
Head: The Read / write head height moves negligible (typically 3-7 nm) above rapidly rotating plates. A hard disk consists of one or more plates that are mounted above a motor shaft seal. Since these plates spinning at high speed, the particles can make the data inaccessible. It may stay for these surfaces. As a result of this, when the read/write head moves as particles settled, you can get stuck there.
Motor damage: Smoke particles can damage the motors. When these particles get into the motor, they can cause physical hard drive failure malfunction.
Electronic failure: Smoke particles can cause short circuits. They can also corrode the core material, because they have high affinity to react to the metal and plastic.
To prevent access to the particles, the hard disks will be the air filter. But smoke particles are small enough in diameter, air filters can hardly stay away, most of them. But if your hard drive fails because of the smoke particle penetration, it is strongly recommended to remove the hard drive and send it to the hard drive recovery services.If you continue working with failed hard drive, it may cause physical damages with no chance of recovery.
