• shneancy@lemmy.world
    50·
    2 个月前

    theatrically turn away from the tracking page and make it feel like you don’t care, it can smell your fear, the same way a printer does, and it’ll then arrive a day after you need it the most

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    25·
    2 个月前

    If it’s a spinning disk hard drive then do a low level format i.e. do a security write zeros on the whole disk (be sure to delete all partitions first). This will try to write a zero to every single sector, and any bad sectors will be removed from use.

  • Sunkblake@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 个月前

    Recover the data on it. Burn it with fire. Cry because you saw what it was.

    Ask yourself why there is a school report on an animation studio on the “new” laptop your “stepmothers” mother bought and used towards the end as she lost her senses thinking people were spying on her trying to hide everything from “the them” deleting what ever she thought was spying on her.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
    122·
    2 个月前

    Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD

    Tip number 2: check smart if there are relocated sectors return it

    Tip number 3: run badblocks on the drive, (-w mode) and if there are no errors then check smart again, if there are errors or relocated sectors return the drive

    Good luck!

        • kadu@scribe.disroot.org
          41·
          2 个月前

          What kind of HDD? for what purpose? For what budget?

          “Don’t buy used” is a dumb tip because it means nothing and addresses nothing.

          I use a WD Enterprise HDD from 2012. I bought it used. It passes all tests with flying colours, zero issues so far… it keeps a mirror of my backup. It’s not my main backup, it’s a copy of a copy. Guess what? I paid an extremely low price for it as a student on a budget, yet it was already proven useful many times both for the backups but also to keep my torrents seeding for longer, and it if does indeed fail… no biggie, not even my backup is compromised.

          There are excellent refurbished HDDs too. Either way, “don’t buy used” is the kind of blanket statement somebody cosplaying as a infosec home lab data specialist comments on Lemmy, but means absolutely nothing and offers no useful advice.

          • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
            2·
            2 个月前

            I’ve never cosplayed as an “infosec home lab data specialist”, but I’ve had many bad personal experiences with used harddrives, drives that were working perfectly fine but failed after few months from several sources.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      2 个月前

      Your tip 1 isn’t good for all situations. I have a 4 drive RAID 10 setup I have zero issues putting a used drive in after I test and inspect. Used doesn’t mean trash, it’s all situational.

      Also, backup backup backup.

      And “used” could be used wrong here, I typically use serverpartdeals and get 20TB+ drive sizes, refurbished. They come with a 5 year warranty and will get them replaced if there are issues.

      • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 个月前

        Well, that’s good to know, I’ve always avoided those drives and tend to pay extra for smaller drives so I can get them new.

  • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    9·
    2 个月前

    Don’t look at it.

    Boot into a linux live usb

    Run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<driveid>

    I probably didn’t get that perfect, but, close enough. Look it up on the internet or check the man page idk

  • \[DUMBASS]/@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 个月前

    This is why I stopped ordering from wish, I study the tracking like I’m investigating the cartel.

    • Engywook@lemmy.zip
      7·
      2 个月前

      No kidding, once I was able to exactly follow the route of my laptop shipped from Lenovo (China) on flightradar after a careful study of carrier/parcel number/tracking events time and don’t remember what else. It was literal real time tracking. Don’t even remember how I did it.

  • fckreddit@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 个月前

    Meditate until you reach the realization that, hdd is useless, all material stuff is useless and you have reached nirvana.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    if it’s a traditional/old style with a spinning magnetic disc, listen for clicking sounds as it reads, if you hear clicks it’s probably about to die, don’t put anything valuable on it.