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seg_lol 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

You should absolutely be doing a full block read of your disk, dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null every couple weeks

topato 9 months ago | [–]

pretty accurate username

nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9 months ago | | [–]

Amusing profile too. For some reason he calls us here on HN a "congress".

markhahn 9 months ago | [–]

pointless to do it by the default 512b block size though.

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