Years after the Columbia disaster scientists have managed to glean useful information from a Seagate 400mb hard drive. The was onboard to records the results of an experiment to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity.
While the reconstructing the debris the engineers found the hard drive and remarkably managed to retrieve 99 % of the data held on the drive.

Pretty impressive, I can picture the advert ... coming soon to a PC mag near you!

Labels: columbia, hard drive, seagate, shuttle, technology

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