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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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RMAing a large HDD that has pirated movies/games on it, is it necessary to completely zero the drive? (alien.top)

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The manufacturer requires that the faulty HDD be sent back. It's 18 TB, so ShredOS estimates 100 hours to completely wipe the drive. I really would rather not go through that. Does anyone else have experience with this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Has someone who has work in a service reparation center, we don’t care because we don’t have the time Same has « I’ve some trouble with my internet and a tech come to my house did it can view if I torrenting ? » Yes we can (Open port & if you torrenting in the same time we analyse what’s in the network to determine where it’s fucked up) but we don’t care, we are paid to repair thing not snitching (we don’t have a bonus for that)