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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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Smart data is able to be cleared/reset. When you buy a used drive from reputable companies like serverpartdeals they’ll almost always show up with less than 100 power on hours as they’ve had them recertified by the manufacturer and after doing so reset smart. I don’t think you can do it natively via sata and need to use something like an rs232 to usb adapter with another physical interface. I could be wrong about exactly how it’s done/the hardware needed, but it can be reset.