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DanBC on Feb 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015

Possibly - there's a blog post where they trawled consumer stores to buy drives and drives in enclosures, and then removed the enclosures.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/farming-hard-drives-2-years-a...

And the discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6801334

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027

bigiain on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

Not just the Bay Area either. They coined the phrase "hard drive shucking", 'cause they were buying consumer external usb drives, then digging the drive out and thorwing away the enclosures.

That story is linked down near the end of the article:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/

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