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.
