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My more-than-a-decade old mSATA SSD just died in my router. Damnit.
benda
benda  
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routers have discs??
silverwizard
silverwizard  
@benda they are usually soldered in, but mine isn't
@benda
Allen
Allen  
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🤬
djb
djb  
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@allenstenhaus memories of Cisco CF cards they charged absolutely insane prices for
@Allen
djb
djb  
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you want this? It’s just gathering dust (not literally)
silverwizard
silverwizard  

@djb I am looking jealously at it!

but I'm gonna buy a new one, and I have an old settop box with one.

@djb
silverwizard
silverwizard  

I realized I bought that disk a year after I bought the router. It died when I came home from my honeymoon (same night) and my roommate was a streamer, so I replaced it with that disk. I had an SD card, coaxed it to life on that, bought a 120GB disk from Canada Computers, then an 8GB off Aliexpress. Put the 120GB in the set top box later.

So that card is almost 10-years-to-the-day old

silverwizard
silverwizard  
I feel like a proper cyberpunk when I manage to pull apart a set top box, pull out the disk, and use that to rebuild my router.
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