Howells eventually realized what he'd done, but it was too late. His bag of trash from that day is believed to be at the local landfill, and...
  • DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org
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    28 days ago

    Even if Howells was able to somehow find the drive, it’s been sitting in a landfill for more than a decade. Still, his team of experts believe there is about an 80 percent chance that data from the drive would be recoverable.

    Is this copium?

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      251·
      28 days ago

      500 million justifies using some very fancy data recovery means, as long as he’s sure it’s the right drive.