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Shadowed: Majstor_Pućko, to sto je taj iz WD-a rekao se odnosi na izmenu firmware-a, ne na fizicko ostecenje diska.
To sto je na toj temi, ako se dobro secam po naslovu, govori o skracivanju zivotnog veka diska, ne na njegovo direktno ostecenje.
Nije tacno ni jedno ni drugo.
Pod br. 1
evo ti link sa teme o Ubuntu Linuxu, gde Dimkovic sasvim jasno objasnjava, kako je moguce "naterati" HDD da jednostavno postane neupotrebljiv, jer je sam naslov teme lose formulisan, HDD je skoro nemoguce namerno sprziti, ali ga je moguce ostetiti da postane neupotrebljiv.
Evo citiram izvor koji je Dimkovic koristio:
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It seems a hard disk drive is made to allow for 300.000 load/unload cycles, after that the mechanism wears of so that inaccurate moving can occur and the platters can be damaged because of a small miss. Now, my drives had 650.000, 1.2000.000 and 900.000 before bad sectors and completely erratic behaviour start to occur, but this was within a year.
http://paul.luon.net/journal/hacking/BrokenHDDs.html
Na kraju teksta pise je za 138 dana uspeo da pokvari nov HDD.
Sto se tice ovog WD lika opet, onome ko ne zeli da cuje/vidi dzaba je govoriti:
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In a conversation I had with hard drive maker Western Digital, vice president Gary Meister acknowledged that it's possible to create a virus that attacks the microcode in drives from Western digital and other brands. The idea that viruses could attack microcode and essentially destroy a machine formed the basis of my Awaiting the PC Killers column as well as a previous blog posting.
bolje je biti malo lud nego malo pametan