The debate- kill electronics (likely already dead) and save garage, or let it burn, or $$$$$ on a datacenter type solution.
option 1, affordable, electronics likely already a lost cause
option 2, we have been toying with the idea of a tear-down and 2 story build anyhow
option 3, I like to tinker with setups, but the cost is getting to the point of risk acceptance and/or with option 1.
bonus round, option 4, inception. Automate detection and possibly some kind of reaction with results from garage labbing (ardiono mini, pii etc [stuff I already have sitting around]) DIY style- results may very.
Meanwhile, my Win10 daily driver laptop has been blue-screening more and more often. I think Linux is in it’s future.
Excactly, will except the risk above X price point. Because of @TimHolus I looked around, I didn’t know there were these affordable extinguisher ‘bombs’ so I might actually get one
If smart and sends notification to phone so I can 911 and get responders there in time to prevent total loss, imo yes. Otherwise just excepting the risk, I like those odds you posted
Those bombs have my interest as I do allot of other dumb stuff, I have steam model systems now, modified (turbo) car, fuel for Coleman’s etc, so a little protection against a number of things going on in there. But… My experience with prevention systems in the Navy is 99% of the time false positive trigger and big clean up…
So I’m sitting on a number of used 2TB HDDs before setting up the NAS and figured this is a great opportunity to just jump into the HDD forensics pool. Was looking at the tools below:
Any advice from fellow Level1’ers?
I remember hearing a SANs instructor mention they used to get ebay HDDs and get into them for some of the classes but they stopped that process because some things just can’t be unseen.
I went with Autopsy because windows and GUI, start out in the shallow part of the pool.
HDD #1, a 1tb from the HP z800 I got from someone. It found a Linux partition (I think I tried proxmox on it way back when) and interesting a bunch of email addresses from the previous owner, but nothing else.
HDD#2 a 2tb I pulled from my FreeNAS I had been running. It could see the zfs format, but nothing else.
HDD#3 one of the 2Tbs I bought from eBay. Critical error, no format detected.
So I guess Autopsy has to be used on a formatted drive? Maybe there is a mode to change. Maybe the eBay vendors do a legit job of wiping. Lots of youtubing of Autopsy to do, very neat software.
Edit, btw was super weird picking up the HDD after disconnecting it but the platter was still spinning, it was hella gyro stabilized- felt really weird.
