• Etterra@discuss.online
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    26 days ago

    What are the odds that even if he finds that thumb drive that it even still works? LOL buy it dumbass, let us all know how that works out for you.

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      25 days ago

      Was it a thumb drive? I thought it was a hard drive. Might even still be attached to the motherboard in a desktop.

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        25 days ago

        If it’s a traditional hard drive with moving parts the chances of it still working are zero. Data recovery maybe possible if the platters are still somewhat intact but I doubt he’d even find it to begin with.

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          21 days ago

          It’ll likely be ruined either way. Municipal waste is a mix of solids and liquids that gets crushed, shoved, and tumbled around before being compacted down by heavy treads and buried in layers. Anything electronic is likely to be damaged in all that.