▲ 24 ▼ After 12 Years of Failed Attempts, the Man Who Lost His Hard Drive Containing $742M in Bitcoin Finally Ends His Search (www.paris2018.com) submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to c/bitcoin@infosec.pub 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (5 children) That HDD was unrecoverable years ago. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children) You mean on a technical level or on a "It's physically lost forever" level? Because had he found it, the chances for recovery would have been fairly decent...if he was able to locate it... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol permalink fedilink source parent [–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child) That PCB is toast and ya really cant swap PCBs and expect it to work. Sorry but after a year in a landfill that would be toasted. Ya might be able to read the platters if youre lucky, but I still doubt it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago You can swap logic boards and get things to work, but there's a good chance it'll be forensic recovery at that point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children) You mean on a technical level or on a "It's physically lost forever" level? Because had he found it, the chances for recovery would have been fairly decent...if he was able to locate it... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol permalink fedilink source parent [–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child) That PCB is toast and ya really cant swap PCBs and expect it to work. Sorry but after a year in a landfill that would be toasted. Ya might be able to read the platters if youre lucky, but I still doubt it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago You can swap logic boards and get things to work, but there's a good chance it'll be forensic recovery at that point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child) After 12 years in a landfill that drive would be full of garbage soup. I've taken plenty of drives apart, and they aren't completely sealed. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe [S] 3 points 1 year ago Oh it'd be a job for a top tier professional recovery service, it would be expensive I'm sure, but if we're talking almost a billion....a couple thousand would be nothing lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child) That PCB is toast and ya really cant swap PCBs and expect it to work. Sorry but after a year in a landfill that would be toasted. Ya might be able to read the platters if youre lucky, but I still doubt it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago You can swap logic boards and get things to work, but there's a good chance it'll be forensic recovery at that point. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago You can swap logic boards and get things to work, but there's a good chance it'll be forensic recovery at that point. permalink fedilink source parent