This is the back of the HDD with the view of the panel without the hard disk controller

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou

This is another controller identical to the one of the broken HDD

Of course you understand why I want to revive the broken Drive. With this controller the HDD boots properly

However this controller has problems with the parking routines for the head assembly.

As a net result I still have 4 TiB that i can't access on a good drive because the replacement controller has another issue

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou

Cada tecnología brilla en lo suyo: los HDD son reyes del almacenamiento masivo y económico (ideales para tus respaldos de Docker); los SSD SATA reviven computadoras viejas con un gran balance de velocidad; y los NVMe son la velocidad pura, directos a la placa madre, perfectos para sistemas operativos e IA.

¡Elige capacidad con HDD o velocidad brutal con NVMe! 💾⚡

#Hardware #Tech #Storage #SSD #NVMe #HDD #Mastodon

HDD in Azul

This is a sublime dark blue rendering of a SATA HDD

I created The composition of this Drive to contrast the sad fact that it's controller finally gave up and died a Silent Death.

The HDD controller fried itself after 19 years of dependable service.
My drive bay suddenly went into short protection, which gave me the indication that there was something wrong with the power circuit.

I naively thought that it was something else, not realizing how long this drive has worked, stable, quietly, as hard as it can, as dependable as it can be. That's something I was not used to from Seagate consumer drives. It's partner drive died more than 10 years ago. It still made it to commendable age

I would have replaced this drive and many others if hard drive prices were normal:

• 8 TB HDD USD$120
• 16 TB HDD USD 300
• 22 TB HDD USD 450

All these drives are consumer grade none of them are server drives. Now I need a total of 128 TB of new HDD space. That's because I not only need to replace but I also need to expand the space

I will have to buy hard drives at the exorbitant prices which are now current. Now the LLM large language model slop shit hits hard here

Since I don't have the cash for this free I need to get myself sponsoring the drive space is needed for computing work

LLM price gouging sucks sweaty wet balls

At least I have been able to get myself a beautiful composition of the corps of the drive

#LLM #slop #AI #miscreant #price #gouging #HDD #hardware #dead #drives #Azul #Photography #chatgpt #fuckyou

Got a #HDD dying on me, explains my recent OS instability. This is my first drive to start dying in my 20-odd year computer building career!

My first PCs drives were so tiny that I got rid of them given advancements in storage, which is when I got this dying drive. Its 2TB storage space has served me well for a decade!

Time to finally dig out the leftover #SSD drives on my second PC that is sitting unused in the corner.

[Перевод] Хакинг прошивок жёстких дисков

В прошлом году я работал над эксплойтом для консоли Xbox 360 (который позже превратился в столь ожидавшийся программный мод), и мне оказалось нужно найти способ модификации прошивки HDD, чтобы обеспечить эксплойт состояние гонки. Для этого я начал пытаться модифицировать прошивки HDD и SSD разных брендов, которые у меня имелись. В этой серии постов я опишу всю проделанную мной работу, в том числе дампинг и анализ прошивки, интерактивную отладку HDD при помощи JTAG, модификацию прошивки накопителя, а также применение ИИ для анализа и идентификации неизвестной архитектуры микроконтроллеров. В этом первом посте я расскажу о дампинге, анализе и модификации прошивок HDD. Вся работа выполнялась без помощи ИИ. В следующем посте я опишу, как использовал ИИ для выполнения похожей работы с другими HDD/SSD, а также для реверс-инжиниринга «чёрного ящика» неизвестной архитектуры набора команд, предоставив Claude доступ для отладки моего жёсткого диска.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1035654/

#прошивки #жесткие_диски #hdd #sdd #western_digital

And so commence the final surgeries. 16tb (2x8tb) to be transplanted from the Win beast to the new 4-bay #Orico media center unit. Once upon a time this was SO much storage space in a single drive. Now I feel like I’m going to be eating dinner from a kiddie bowl from IKEA.

Following this I will transplant the #RTX3080 and motherboard/CPU/RAM to a smaller case and that will become the new game room PC. 64gb, 16 CPU cores. Christ how the mighty have fallen. #windows #datahoarder #pc #hdd #nvidia

A Retro HDD opened up for inspection after Life

This Drive is of retro Technology Simply because it failed earlier than I have expected it to MTBF

#HDD #hardware #retro #Technology #MTBF #dead #after #life #Life #after #Death