I have placed a failing disk in a usb caddy, which then went into the
freeze.  Powered externally and usb (which helps to rate limit) ran to an
external laptop.

It helped a little but.

The freezer didn't have a compatible I/O interface.  ;-) So we only
> used it to cool the assembly before restarting the extraction from
> where it left off.
>
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