Hacker News with Generative AI: Hard Drives

Apple's long-lost hidden recovery partition from 1994 has been found (downtowndougbrown.com)
In my last post about hard drives that go bad over time, I hinted at having rescued a lost piece of obscure Apple software history from an old 160 MB Conner hard drive that had its head stuck in the parked position. This post is going to be all about it. It’s the tale of a tad bit of an obsession, what felt like a hopeless search, and how persistence eventually paid off.
Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks (heise.de)
Almost 200 readers have now noticed long runtimes on their new Seagate hard disks. Reports from abroad are also increasing.
Seagate's HDD scandal deepens clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms (tomshardware.com)
Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3 extended (tomshardware.com)
Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video] (tom7.org)
Amazon sells fake, dead Toshiba hard drives as new [video] (youtube.com)
Western Digital: We Are Sampling 32TB SMR Hard Drives (anandtech.com)
MACH.2 Multi-Actuator Hard Drives (seagate.com)