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Originally Posted by Skunks
I don't agree with CW's concern for the content (data-wise?) of a used HD, given you can set your reformatting utility to completely erase all previous data.
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It's not the data I worry about. It's the actual physical hard drive. I've had two fairly catastrophic failures because the secondhand hard drives I had gotten themselves were shot. I had gotten them from a computer recycling center. One of them produced a burning smell right before it died. I cracked it open and found the discs and bearings were caked with dust that burned as the thing spun. That's why I only trust used hard drives if I know how they've been treated before. It's just a caveat.
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