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ryan-c
on Sept 10, 2015
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A FAT32 fragmenter
There are stories of
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old hard drives being made to move around a room with abusive disk access patterns.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html
digi_owl
on Sept 10, 2015
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"Some bands of old-time hackers figured out how to induce disk-accessing patterns that would do this to particular drive models and held disk-drive races."
Now that i would loved to be witness to.
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