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[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Really? Pull a drive instead of plugging in the charger?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The techies on lemmy forget that regular people exist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

techie here. He's something other.

Something which may have outlasted previous technologies.. I.. I wouldn't ask for elaboration and nod.

nodsandleaves

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

If you are just checking one or two devices, charger is the way to go. Now if you need to check like a dozen for some reason, pulling the drives might be easier.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Depends how bad a state the rest of the machine is in, I've tried booting some really knackered machines and the time I spent waiting would probably have been enough to remove the drive!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Make one drive mount read only in a guaranteed working and current system instead of powering on hundreds of old components along with long dead software, batteries, authentication long forgotten... Not to mention where that supposed charger has gone and will it work or die after years of being abandoned.

Absolutely.