On Thursday 04 September 2025 07:40:16 am Andy Smith wrote: > Okay so there are some quite obscure things like flash storage not > being able to reliably hold data if left powered off for years.
Wondering if this is why a whole mess of salvaged hard drives that I thought I might find useful at some point are totally non-functional, as in when I hook them up they're just not seen at all by the computer in question... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
