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 Post subject: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 5:30 pm 

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I have 50 or so apacer 2 GB ssd t2bkoo, I was wondering what to do with them. I got them free and hate to scrap them if someone can use them. I wish I was able to post photos, but i am unable to at this time.


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 Post subject: Re: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:08 pm 
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You have two issues here.
One, you can never guarantee total data erasure of flash drives without destroying the drive.
2GB is too small to be useful to anyone outside of the server/cloud industry.
Such drives are currently used for things like OneDrive and iCloud type services. “2GB free space!”
The drive is erased and dumped when a user defaults or closes out.

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 Post subject: Re: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:13 pm 

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so I should just send to boardsort? what class?


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 Post subject: Re: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:09 pm 
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Depends. If they’re in cases (SATA, ATA, SCSI) and you remove the casing you’d get hard drive board.
M2 and it’s predecessors range from gold finger card to hard drive board.
PCIe cards will be gold finger card or high telco.
Proprietary connector drives can be anything.

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 Post subject: Re: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:25 pm 
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If these are what I think based on your description such lots usually wind up together when someone replaces a drive rack.

Lots like this almost always sell as is. I’ve bought a few myself. Either you wind up with near dead drives from someone running a ‘shredding’ program on them (BAD idea for solid state drive reuse), or they can not use any form of encrypted file system since the drive was erased with a firmware tool flashed to the controller. Permanently disabling the correct command set for SCI
Ways around the latter issue for more knowledgeable tech but at 2GB it’s not worth the trouble.
If it’s SATA they may be usable for raspberry pi computers but the reliability rate of a used SSD under 120GB is fairly low. I wouldn’t even consider storing something on a used 2GB disk.

I’d scrap them. Personally. You’re looking at $1 or so each as untested. Maybe $5 if they pass smart 2.
If they were flashed they may not work for the buyer even if it worked for you. They may not work for you at all and still be usable and have data on them creating a chain of custody issue over data privacy laws if you sell them DOA.

You can pick up new older 120GB disks for around $25 so it’s generally not worth it to deal with anything that small that’s used.

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 Post subject: Re: apacer 2GB SSD
PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:03 pm 

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thanks


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