datahoarder
Who are we?
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). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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I've recently bought a drive from Amazon warehouse. I haven't used much other than for the initialization. Overall all of the used hard drives I've bought from Amazon continue to work to this day. Some hard drives I've bought from Ebay have had issues. I was able to fix one by shucking, but sadly the data was lost from the previous methods I tried. I have another drive that was dead on arrival. One of my most recent drives died alongside with my laptop. I was able to get my laptop fixed via warranty. I sent my hard drive in to Salvage Data for an evaluation, but the lowest estimated quote was around $2500, I only paid for it to be sent back, I may reopen the case to have it fixed in the future.