For me this would be a gamble and like I said the chance of data recovery isn’t to high in my case that’s why I haven’t done it mainly. I had someone who works with HDD’s take a look at it and he assumed that most likely the platter itself was severely damaged/scratched. And there was something about the encryption in addition to the scratches that would’ve made recovery not that likely.
Please note that I have absolutely no idea about HDD data recovery and am only remembering what I’ve been told a few years ago.
While 1k does sound somewhat enticing that disk was my secure storage holding all my passwords (albeit old ones), ssh keys, wallet seeds, pgp keys, 2FA backups, payslips, bank statements.. you name it it’s probably on there..
I just keep it in case I get some unexpected money that would allow me to get it fixed securely under supervision. I’m a tiny bit paranoid about that particular disk falling into the wrong hands even if it’s broken :)
And well.. I didn’t exactly loose any money on it since I didn’t buy those coins with real money so I’m not too frustrated about it.
But it was a great lesson advocating for redundancy! Now I have everything storage related in pairs. One storage server at home, one offsite etc.. (I didn’t loose everything, most stuff wasn’t that important)
For me this would be a gamble and like I said the chance of data recovery isn’t to high in my case that’s why I haven’t done it mainly. I had someone who works with HDD’s take a look at it and he assumed that most likely the platter itself was severely damaged/scratched. And there was something about the encryption in addition to the scratches that would’ve made recovery not that likely.
Please note that I have absolutely no idea about HDD data recovery and am only remembering what I’ve been told a few years ago.