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We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I had one of those come in once when I was working IT. Iirc the hdds may have been raided so I’m not sure if you could easily recover the data unless it was like a raid 1. That said if you just want the hdds yeah they were just normal shit in an overdesigned enclosure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah nothing to do with data at all. Just wanted to salvage the physical drive. What’s funny is like it’s just a shit enclosure with some nice plastic. The insinuation that LaCie built some custom drive with proprietary controllers is just ludicrous to me. Especially from a supposed “tech” crew. Gotta wonder what they were doing to them that the drives they pulled were all DOA. I scraped a bit of the plastic near one clip, but the enclosure after the removal was totally reusable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seems odd to put individual external drives into a RAID array.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also not sure it would matter unless it was a multi drive array.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah the one I was thinking of was a multidrive enclosure