On Thursday 04 September 2025 03:53:43 pm Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 04:07:59PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > >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... > > Unlikely. If these are from servers I'd guess wrong interface type > (e.g., SAS drive on a SATA controller). Possibly a really destructive > data wipe rendered the drives non-functional. No, these are even older than that. Pulled from a variety of desktop systems over the years, for the most part.
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