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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Bud, if you put that platter back together after I snipped it, you deserve every bit of data you get off it, 1000%

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[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

It's not that hard though. There are companies that offer data recovery as a service. If the value of the data on those drives exceeds the cost of those services then it becomes worth it to fish one of the drives out of the dumpster and take it there.

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[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago*

This is a very specialized job, your avg joe is not going to do it. Also, in the many years I've been in IT, I've never even seen a video of a platter reconstructed and get data off it.

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