On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM Me <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2025-07-12 15:19, [email protected] wrote: > > > Why do you recommend that? Are you assuming the SSDs songbird got are > > used, or do you recommend that even for new SSDs -- if so, why? > Not the OP, but you never know what's on the disks. It wouldn't be the > first time new disks contain unwanted "presents" straight from the > factory. And old disks can contain all sorts of questionable stuff. You > really don't want to know what I have found over the years when > inspecting storage devices. Not only in the form of malware and such. > People can sometimes have the weirdest preferences I really don't need > to see (but had too to do my job). Luckily I don't have to anymore.
Malware on new drives is an old thing: <https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-on-new-hard-drives/>. Jeff
