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by toast0 942 days ago
> The market is saturated with solutions for middle-boxes that make hard drives talk to networks, but nobody seems to be directly addressing the problem of we just want storage network accessible.

Most hard drives run a serial console on some of the jumpers. You can easily run PPP or SLIP over that. QED :P
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ronsor 942 days ago
Nothing like those blazing fast 115kbps read/write speeds.
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csdvrx 942 days ago
Tell me more, like a brand and model where I can do that!

BTW if you already explored that, would you know how to alter the SLC/MLC ratio by any chance?

Modern QLC drive often have a SLC area for buffering. With the right firmware tools, it should be possible to take a 4 TB QLC drive and convert it to a 1 SLC drive to get more performance.

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EvanAnderson 942 days ago
An older reference for hacking hard disk drives: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

There were some firmware bugs on Seagate Barracuda SATA drives that could be worked-around w/ serial console. I don't remember the specifics though.

If you some search-engining on hard drive manufacturers and "serial console" you'll find indexed pages. (Presumably the really interesting stuff is buried deep down in forum posts, etc.) Just doing a couple quick searches got me some stuff.

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