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.