Many Locked Drives, A Quck Question

[lufix]

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

[fzabkar]

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

[lufix]

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!

[lufix]

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??