On Thursday 04 September 2025 06:04:43 pm Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > 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, > > I said flash storage but you say "hard drives". Perhaps we are just > being loose with our terminology here but a "hard drive" or "HDD" is > normally referring to something magnetically encoded on a spinning disc > and is not a flash-based SSD. I'm not sure because this thread is about > SSDs, so I would question why you would start talking about HDDs. > > As HDDs don't lose data from extended periods of being without power, > and this thread is about SSDs, I'm going to assume that you meant SSDs > here, not "hard drives".
Nope. It's my understanding that the board on HDDs has some small amount of flash memory on it, used for what purpose I don't know. > > when I hook them up they're just not seen at all by the computer in > > question... It's been a rather long time since I've had any detailed info on what the board on a HDD is doing, in detail. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
