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Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
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I buy and sell drives occasionally. Even shitty old IDE drives with 5, 10 years of runtime are worth something to someone.
Bought one recently just to get an old lathe PLC (really just an old PC with DOS software control) running again.
Yeah, man, storage is storage. Once you get down the redundancy chain enough even a crappy salvage drive on its last legs may end up being a cost-effective way to prevent some data loss later.
I'm actively considering going on a drive plunder run of old, semi-busted hdds both at home and in used sales sites to eventually build a static redundancy backup of files I know aren't going to change in the foreseeable future. Because why not.