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And people do hack hard drives as well: * install Linux to your hard drive firmware https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack The difference is, these hacks we've mentioned are software and solid-state electronics hack. On the other hand, doing a hard drive failure analysis in the mechanical realm is totally a different challenge, a hard drive is hard.