My 400GB of painstakingly collected and important data was lost some days back when my hard disk crashed. To get it exchanged through segate warranty, I dismounted it from the cabinet. Oh my god, there were ants coming out of the hard disk. Ants probably ate up all the rubberish seal below the PCB and got into the main disk place. They must have interfered with the air film between the head and the disk surface. There was no point in taking pictures, as the ants would have left before I could get my camera.

However the data lost was impossible to retrieve due to great damage to the head part. I hope that the HDD gets exchanged. Will be back soon, Cheers.

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