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Cool! Thanks for the follow-up comment. So I guess they've adopted the diagonal parity too. I think it's supposed to be a lot faster for rebuilds than RS based RAID 6. How was it carving out the virtual disk? Was it all pretty continuous once you had the RAID configuration straight?

I'm sure there are some AIOs that were equipped with a 2.5" drive, but I've never bothered to keep track of them. That'd be something you'd have to ask on a PC repair forum. Here, we all do data recovery and would never bother to buy a whole computer to just read one drive. I've got three...

That's just a standard PATA 2.5" connection. It's the same in virtually every old laptop. Your cables for the desktop are just sized for the 3.5" size drives. You can buy a size adapter: https://www.amazon.com/SinLoon-Adapter-Laptop-Desktop-Converter/dp/B07ZGHZJMM/ Or you can just buy a USB...

I can't say I've personally ever worked on one of those HPE SAN units. Nothing in the documentation that I'm seeing seems to suggest anything beyond a regular RS RAID 6, but it's hard to be sure. I know some other brands like EMC like to use a sort of diagonal parity rather than a Reed-Solomon...

Found them: https://www.hddheadtools.com/product-category/data-unlock-sata-connectors/

I love it, and I want a set. If I wasn't semi-retired I'd have ordered them already. Do you have a link showing where they can be purchased?

The website looks nice, but the inventory is quite lacking. I'm sure that's something you plan to increase??? As a suggestion, perhaps sorting drives by their utility families would make it faster and easier for donor searching. I've always wished donor drives would do that.

Sounds like we have a quarrel here. Tell me more.

Say what?

I'll see if I can re-create it later on (maybe my memory will be good enough from the one time I watched it). Basically, he showed how you can pull system file 129 out of the newer WDs, even though they're not in the directory module, and then use that to build an unlocked ROM. I can't verify...

Type /CQ in the terminal and read up what it tells you about that.

I was using that to point to the above quote. It's also often used on forums as an arrow pointing up.

Again this ^^^

Yeah, I kind of sold my lab, and the NAS that was hosting this went to the new owners. I'll probably throw it up onto another NAS later, but I'm busy with other things right now.

I'd say it has a very good chance it'll match. Only one month difference in the manufacture and from the same site. I doubt they were using two different sets of heads for the model within a two-month period.

Very cool! Who did you squeeze the information for this technique from?

And that's all it takes to prevent recovery in most cases.

So, I've been clearing some old drives which had bad sectors to just sanitize them. A command I've often used to clear drives with bad sectors is: T>m0,4,2,,,0,0,22 Which I started using (with good results) after seeing it used in MRT's menu for drive refurbishing. Normally, when I've done...

Jamaica and Jamaica 4K families. Not surprising they are cross-compatible. I've been keeping a list of cross-compatible heads families here on this thread: https://www.data-medics.com/forum/threads/cross-compatible-wd-families.1535/

I mean, it's technically "possible" you'd just need to know all the vendor-specific ATA commands. Problem is, no one who's done all that reverse engineering is going to share that information. Which is why they lock it down in a hardware/software combo tool like PC-3000 and you have to pay...