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Off topic, I am wondering what will happen to drivesavers business model given mechanical hard drives are on the way out.
by gist 9y ago
Off topic, I am wondering what will happen to drivesavers business model given mechanical hard drives are on the way out.
- damnfine 9y agoI am sure ssd and flash recovery will keep them plenty busy.
- exikyut 9y agoAnd recovering from phones (same thing as flash pretty much, but with different mechanics in terms of getting access)
- baobrien 9y agoI'd imagine that phones are usually the easiest to recover, assuming the storage is not encrypted and the flash chip is not physically damaged. Just pop off the flash memory, pop into a socket, and go to town. No dealing with controllers or servo track or anything.
- j_s 9y agoI thought nearly all new SSDs implement AES-256 encryption instead of actually wiping the drive, and controller/key loss means zero chance of recovery? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13884421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918288
- jjeaff 9y agoThey've been "on the way out" for a long time. The cost per GB on SSD is still 20x the cost of platter drives.