Hello,

First post! /me waves

I was donated a few hard drives, magnetic and solid state. From various manufacturers in different sizes. From a search around I've discovered that if the master password has been changed, ie. "Master password revision code = 16385" (in hdparm) , then the drives are not reusable? I also have a few which are "Master password revision code = 65534", but from what I understand, there might be hope for re-using these. I'm not interested in the data at all, I would like to reuse these hard drives in machines that will be donated out.

I'd appreciate any thoughts, confirmation, anything. We have a severe shortage of hard drives and this would be a boon for us and our recipients.

Thanks!


Magnetic------------

Hitachi:
HTS725050A7E630 - x12
HTS727500A9E364 - x2

SSD -----------------

Seagate
ST320LT014 - x1

SKhynix
HFS250G32TND-N1A2A - x1

Samsung
MZ7TD256HAFV-000L7 - x1

Intel
SSDSC2BW180A3L - x1
SSD0E38425 - x10

Do any of the SSDs have a PSID code on the label?

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Yes the Intel branded drives do have PSIDs, they're all different. Should I post one or two? Not sure it'll make a difference due to what I've learned from Spildit's post though.

Spildit, shame that I'm not in the EU as I would have sent them your way. I will search for a local data recovery firm and see what happens. Otherwise these things will end up on ebay.

Thanks so much for the responses and info!

Thank you very much for your responses!

Unfortunately I ran across some issues:

Was just curious if anyone could tell me why I keep getting : "Error: TCG initialization failed." when attempting to psid_revert w/ the Intel SSD Pro Administrator Tool??