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Hi.. Does anyone have a spare zerofilled or otherwise surplus (ie cloned to larger drive on purchase of new laptop) >250 GB HDD? It has to be SATA type 1, as it is an old Dell dinosaur. My only working drive is a 160 which is exhibiting signs of failure, and I don't want to risk trashing it
Not fussy about speed, as long as it passes SMART and was well looked after it shouldn't be a problem. PM me with the cost + postage. Also after an IDE (yeah, remember those?) for ye olde hacking laptop. This one just has to work, even if is slow as molasses.
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EIDE to SATA adapters are known to fail, but for $9 you could buy two to make sure.
Note some models will only allow a single adapter per EIDE bus, but with an OS like linux only the primary partition 0 needs to be <100GB to boot the system correctly on old hardware.
Old laptops are not worth recovering as a dual core Intel unit usually can be replaced for $100, and add a rebuilt battery for $50.
Used hard-drives also a waste of money given the contents are usually valuable to owners.
A bootable 44-Pin Female IDE To SD Card Adapter is a slow/cheap SSD:
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Just found a 120G here and a 20GB SATA, the problem is that the data on them has to be put somewhere.
What would be nice is a "write once" pendrive > 250GB specifically for backing up large amounts of dats which rarely if ever needs to be rewritten. Onboard duplicate file detection and "intelligent" filesystem with the ability to overwrite a given file with 1's to permanently render it unrecoverable.
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Conundrum wrote ...
Just found a 120G here and a 20GB SATA, the problem is that the data on them has to be put somewhere.
What would be nice is a "write once" pendrive > 250GB specifically for backing up large amounts of dats which rarely if ever needs to be rewritten. Onboard duplicate file detection and "intelligent" filesystem with the ability to overwrite a given file with 1's to permanently render it unrecoverable.
-A
Wouldn't a CD or DVD be the perfect media for a write once data store?
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Well, apart from CD/DVDs having a limited lifespan. I tried to make a recovery tool to get data off old disks but it looks like it is a lot more difficult as the dye degrades leaving nothing to recover.
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Spare laptop HDDs?
