Comment by TomK32
2 years ago
You only remind me that I don't blog that often, it should turn 25 this year even though I didn't know the word blog back then and scraped the personal posts from it.
Anyways, my last blog post is a bit of a highlight: saving a lightly burnt HDD https://tomk32.de/2022/10/03/hdd-data-rescue-a-burnt-cable.h...
Molex to SATA, lose all your data. Injection-molded thermoplastic SATA power connectors have a tendency to short internally and catch fire, as opposed to SATA connectors made out of two separate pieces of plastic clamped together with a seam.
Yes something like that happened in this dusty, old machine. Good thing she was using the PC when it happened and unplugged it when she smelled the burnt plastic.