Re: Hard Drive Failure Reprise

On 12/8/24 12:07 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

However, upon close inspection, I noticed huge amounts of fine dust
particles that were clogging the cooling vanes of the CPU heat sink.
Using a brush I scrubbed away all the fine dust and ever since I have
not had a recurrence of the problem.

That's number one in ruining my drives and generally sensitive electronic stuff. Here in this area they're almost always pollen.
Very special air filters can remove them from your rooms, but those filters are expensive and should be replaced every month or so.
Pollen are strange things. They're alive, you know. So they change chemically into corrosive stuff that get deposited on vulnerable surfaces and gradually eats them away.