{"id":48410,"date":"2019-05-28T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/\/?p=48410"},"modified":"2026-10-12T05:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:49:34","slug":"why-the-freezer-trick-for-hard-drives-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drivesaversdatarecovery.com\/es-mx\/blog\/why-the-freezer-trick-for-hard-drives-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Por qu\u00e9 el \"truco del congelador\" para discos duros no funciona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Los congeladores. Al parecer, hay quienes piensan que no son solo para helados y nuggets. De hecho, <\/span><b>congelar el disco duro para recuperar datos <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">lleg\u00f3 a considerarse una buena pr\u00e1ctica. As\u00ed es: bastaba con meter el disco en una bolsa de pl\u00e1stico impermeable, apartar las verduras congeladas y <\/span><b>poner el disco duro en el congelador<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Despu\u00e9s de una hora m\u00e1s o menos, se sacaba el disco y se acced\u00eda, como por arte de magia, a la informaci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Si tan solo todos los problemas tecnol\u00f3gicos fueran tan f\u00e1ciles de resolver\u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Si alguna vez ha sometido, o ha considerado someter, un disco duro a este maltrato g\u00e9lido, no es el \u00fanico. De hecho, muchos sitios de referencia tecnol\u00f3gica de renombre, desde PC World hasta Lifehacker, respaldaron y recomendaron <\/span><b>congelar un disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2026 hace m\u00e1s de 10 a\u00f1os. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pero la tecnolog\u00eda ha avanzado bastante desde entonces, y ahora existen alternativas mucho mejores para restaurar datos perdidos. Si desea tener las mayores probabilidades de no perder sus datos para siempre \u2014y a qui\u00e9n no le interesa\u2014 siga leyendo para descubrir por qu\u00e9 <\/span><b>congelar el disco duro para recuperar datos <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no funciona y c\u00f3mo puede mantener segura su informaci\u00f3n. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Un viejo truco, una nueva tecnolog\u00eda<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quiz\u00e1 se pregunte <\/span><b>c\u00f3mo funciona congelar un disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00bfDe d\u00f3nde sali\u00f3 esta idea? Aunque parezca una locura, hace mucho tiempo esta teor\u00eda ten\u00eda en realidad un poco de l\u00f3gica.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pero primero, <\/span><b>\u00bfc\u00f3mo funciona un disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, en realidad? Los discos duros est\u00e1n compuestos por una serie de platos magnetizados donde se almacena su informaci\u00f3n. Para recuperar los datos, unos ejes hacen girar los platos para que los cabezales de lectura y escritura puedan encontrar la informaci\u00f3n que usted desea. Si los ejes fallan, no es posible acceder a lo que est\u00e1 almacenado en la unidad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Las fallas en los ejes se producen por varias razones, una de ellas es la falta de lubricaci\u00f3n. En este caso, primero los ejes no pueden girar, luego los platos no pueden rotar y, finalmente, los cabezales de lectura y escritura no pueden acceder a los datos. En teor\u00eda, <\/span><b>congelar un disco duro <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">podr\u00eda contraer sus componentes y volver a alinearlos. Tiene sentido, \u00bfverdad?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Este truco se utiliz\u00f3 tanto que algunas empresas de hardware incluso dise\u00f1aron sus equipos para funcionar en entornos extremadamente fr\u00edos, aumentando las probabilidades de reanimar el disco duro en caso de que se bloqueara. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a1Antes de congelar, det\u00e9ngase!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pero antes de meter el <\/span><b>disco duro en el congelador<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, hay algunas cosas que debe saber. Hoy en d\u00eda los discos duros son mucho m\u00e1s avanzados, por lo que la congelaci\u00f3n tiene un impacto mucho mayor. Los discos duros se fabrican ahora con medidas incre\u00edblemente precisas. Incluso el m\u00e1s m\u00ednimo cambio de posici\u00f3n, que es justamente el objetivo del truco del congelador, puede afectar negativamente la capacidad de los cabezales de lectura y escritura para leer su disco duro. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adem\u00e1s, los problemas de lubricaci\u00f3n son en su mayor\u00eda cosa del pasado, ya que el sistema que proporciona la lubricaci\u00f3n ha mejorado enormemente. E incluso si llegara a presentarse un problema de lubricaci\u00f3n, la unidad normalmente almacena los datos fuera del plato, por lo que la informaci\u00f3n de todos modos no se ve comprometida. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">En resumen, los discos duros modernos no son vulnerables a los problemas de lubricaci\u00f3n que se resolv\u00edan congel\u00e1ndolos. Ver\u00e1 que, la mayor\u00eda de las veces, un disco duro falla por un problema l\u00f3gico y no de hardware. Por lo tanto, <\/span><b>congelar un disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> no sirve de nada, salvo para destruirlo de forma permanente. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hardware espec\u00edfico, resultados irregulares<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Si est\u00e1 investigando este tema con la intenci\u00f3n de salvar un disco duro, probablemente encontrar\u00e1 ejemplos de casos en los que la congelaci\u00f3n tuvo \u00e9xito. S\u00ed, existen ejemplos de algunos discos duros que podr\u00edan responder positivamente al ser puestos en el congelador. Pero el peligro de destruir su hardware, incluso en estas raras situaciones, es real. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">En concreto, los discos duros con una capacidad de almacenamiento de datos de 10 GB o menos <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">podr\u00edan <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">permitirle recuperar sus datos despu\u00e9s de congelarlos. Esto se debe a que estas unidades son conocidas por presentar problemas a temperaturas muy altas. Si un eje se bloquea, <\/span><b>congelar el disco duro <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">posiblemente reduzca la fricci\u00f3n para que los ejes puedan volver a funcionar correctamente.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Por lo general, puede saber que su unidad tiene un problema en el eje cuando escucha un sonido de traqueteo. En esta situaci\u00f3n, su dispositivo reconoce la unidad, pero esta se desconecta mucho antes de que pueda acceder a su informaci\u00f3n. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Si nota que su disco duro a\u00fan recibe energ\u00eda y que un disco gira a las RPM \u00f3ptimas, no sufre de un eje defectuoso. En ese caso, <\/span><b>poner el disco duro en el congelador <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no har\u00e1 m\u00e1s que hacerle perder el tiempo\u2026 y, potencialmente, corroer los componentes. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C\u00f3mo la congelaci\u00f3n da\u00f1a los discos duros<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cuando <\/span><b>congela el disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, cualquier vapor de agua que haya en su interior se convierte en cristales de hielo. Al sacar el disco duro del congelador, esos cristales comienzan a derretirse. El agua resultante puede da\u00f1ar, y con frecuencia da\u00f1a, los componentes electr\u00f3nicos esenciales de la unidad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adem\u00e1s, si la unidad se usa antes de descongelarse por completo, el cabezal puede chocar contra el plato giratorio del disco duro y provocar una p\u00e9rdida permanente de datos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">De cualquier manera, los riesgos de <\/span><b>congelar el disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, considerando que este m\u00e9todo ya no es una forma eficaz de recuperar sus datos, sencillamente no valen la pena. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No es una soluci\u00f3n permanente<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Incluso <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">si<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> tiene un disco duro que responde a este tratamiento, e incluso <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">si<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> de alguna manera logra evitar que el condensado de la descongelaci\u00f3n corroa los componentes de la unidad, esto de ninguna manera es una soluci\u00f3n permanente.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Siempre hay una causa subyacente detr\u00e1s de un problema de ejes y de lubricaci\u00f3n. Al <\/span><b>congelar el disco duro<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, usted atiende el s\u00edntoma, no la causa. Si \u2014y este es un gran \"si\"\u2014 logra reanimar el disco duro, su objetivo debe ser extraer los datos del dispositivo lo antes posible, antes de que el disco vuelva a bloquearse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comience extrayendo primero la informaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s importante. De esa manera, si ocurre otra falla antes de que termine, podr\u00e1 estar tranquilo de haber conseguido lo que m\u00e1s le importa. Mientras extrae los datos del dispositivo, aseg\u00farese de respaldarlos para evitar que esto se convierta en un gran problema en el futuro. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Respalde, respalde, respalde<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hablando de respaldos, lo diremos una vez m\u00e1s para que quede claro: RESPALDE. La primera l\u00ednea de defensa y, en realidad, su mejor opci\u00f3n para salvar sus datos es respaldarlos. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Existen muchas formas de respaldar su informaci\u00f3n. Algunas computadoras incluso cuentan con una funci\u00f3n de respaldo integrada (Copia de seguridad de Windows y Time Machine de Apple). \u00dasela. Establezca un horario y deje que su computadora haga el trabajo pesado por usted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tambi\u00e9n puede utilizar un servicio de respaldo en la nube. Existen muchas opciones gratuitas de almacenamiento en la nube, incluida la suite de Google, pero su espacio gratuito es limitado. Si tiene mucho que respaldar, considere pagar por almacenamiento adicional para guardar su informaci\u00f3n en su formato original y de alta calidad. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 el confiable disco duro externo. Son excelentes, porque pueden guardarse en una caja fuerte a prueba de fuego o en una caja de seguridad bancaria. Pero, como normalmente se guardan en un lugar apartado, es posible que no se actualicen con la frecuencia debida. Adem\u00e1s, son vulnerables a los da\u00f1os por fuego o agua si ocurre una cat\u00e1strofe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Todos deber\u00edan adquirir el h\u00e1bito de respaldar sus datos. Es verdaderamente la forma m\u00e1s confiable de mantener su informaci\u00f3n a salvo. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid wpex-relative\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consulte a un especialista en recuperaci\u00f3n de discos duros<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sea cual sea la causa, un ingeniero en recuperaci\u00f3n de datos de discos duros es su mejor opci\u00f3n cuando su unidad deja de funcionar. Su trabajo es ayudarle a extraer su valiosa informaci\u00f3n del disco duro, incluso cuando usted piense que ya no hay esperanza. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Las herramientas y t\u00e9cnicas de recuperaci\u00f3n de datos est\u00e1n especializadas para los discos duros actuales. Si intenta recuperar la informaci\u00f3n por su cuenta, es posible que su primer intento sea tambi\u00e9n el \u00faltimo. Y si solo le queda un \u00faltimo nugget en el congelador, seguro tendr\u00e1 cuidado de no quemarlo. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 deber\u00eda ser diferente con su disco duro? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contar con un especialista en recuperaci\u00f3n de discos duros garantiza el mejor resultado posible<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> cuando sufre una falla en su disco duro. As\u00ed que no deje su disco duro a la intemperie. Resista la tentaci\u00f3n de <\/span><b>poner el disco duro en el congelador,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> y p\u00f3ngase en contacto hoy mismo con <\/span><a href=\"\/es-mx\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DriveSavers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> para recuperar sus datos. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freezers. Apparently, some folks think they\u2019re not just for ice cream and Bagel Bites. In fact, freezing your hard drive to recover data was once considered best practice. That\u2019s right, all you had to do was put the drive in a waterproof plastic bag, move the Eggos out of the way and put your hard&hellip;","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":48650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[59,481],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-48410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-data-recovery","tag-hdd","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why the \u201cFreezer Trick\u201d for Hard Drives Doesn\u2019t Work<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ever try freezing a hard drive to recover data from your dead drive? 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