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Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
Those old school drives were built like tanks.
I still have a few ~100MB drives in my things and you can feel the difference in quality compared to today.
I always wondered what would happen if you shot them lol. Thanks for satisfying an age old curiosity.
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I have a 250MB in aluminum container HD from 2005ish. Still works ASFAIK.
Might be fun to stress test it, but I expect the discs inside would shatter from shocks before the case ever showed signs of wear.
Toes@ani.social 1 day ago
There’s an old school program called spinrite that is designed to stress test them and gives you a little report at the end.