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Hard Drive Disassembly: The IBM Deathstar

Posted on March 1, 2013 by lui_gough

In one of my earlier posts, I salvaged two IBM Deskstar 75GXP DTLA-307030 30.7Gb hard drives. One of them was sick – to the point that recovery just wasn’t economical timewise, so I decided to take the opportunity to take … Continue reading →

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