Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoData-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising resultsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down15
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkData-recovery firm tests $28, 500GB HDD from Amazon and gets surprising resultsarstechnica.comAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square1fedilink
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 days agoTl;dr Upon opening the HDD’s enclosure, Secure Data Recovery found a Toshiba MQ01ABD050V from 2016. Considering that only a few brands still manufacture HDDs, this wasn’t too surprising. It is more surprising that the drive inside was 9 years old.
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