Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?
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.
No need for the cc.
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