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by rasz
354 days ago
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>and drive SMART data SMART used to be one of those "data is stored securely on X, leveraging hardware-based security measures to protect against unauthorized access or manipulation". Nowadays its trivial to wipe and is the basis of "refurbished new old stock" Amazon HDD SCAM where product turns out to be pulls from server farms with over 20K hours on them with wiped SMART showing zero hours no defects. Its faster to wipe smart than scan the drive, and more lucrative to sell as new old stock than admit its a server pull. |
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