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Re:ST3000DM001 by tester34 on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:47AM (#27420411)
haha, it's even better if you replace in your comment hard drives with CPUs
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Re:ST3000DM001 by londons_explore on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:09AM (#27420523)
But people do mod CPU's... By overclocking, by hacking into SMM mode, by liquid nitrogen cooling...

People also make their own toy CPU's for fun with quite some regularity - using FPGA's and other tools, the same as the pros.

And people decap and reverse engineer new CPU's like Apples M1.

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Re:ST3000DM001 by segfaultbuserr on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:02PM (#27427694)
And people do hack hard drives as well:

* install Linux to your hard drive firmware

https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

The difference is, these hacks we've mentioned are software and solid-state electronics hack. On the other hand, doing a hard drive failure analysis in the mechanical realm is totally a different challenge, a hard drive is hard.

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Re:ST3000DM001 by tester34 on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:18AM (#27420558)
I think I missed something in my comment, because I focused more on processor fab
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