Farming Hard Drives (2012)(backblaze.com) |
Farming Hard Drives (2012)(backblaze.com) |
It's classic SV screw-regular-folk-as-long-as-its-not-banned.
It's easier to cut the 3.3v wire from the power supply. If you have color coded wires, it'll be the orange wire; if not, it'll be the same color as every other wire.
To a first approximation, nothing ever uses 3.3v from sata power, so it made sense to remove it from the spec. Reusing the pins so that 3.3v inhibits functionality was kind of crazy though.
I got told by their support that I had to change my password for their service. Opened the website, went to my account and tried to change my password. Didn't work.
Got told by their customer support that you have to use the "lost password" method.
How hard is it to right a password reset method that works?
Backblaze lost me as a customer due to the new password and 2FA requirements, which would lock me out if I were to lose my devices, the exact scenario I'm trying to mitigate. Not affiliated, I'm now trying my luck with pixeldrain, mega, and koofr (having quit proton lately as well since it broke rclone compatibility a few weeks ago).
Koofr is one of the ones offering lifetime plans right? I'm always getting spammed with their offers. Wonder how they compare to pCloud?
/stares wistfully off into the distance
And when that's a problem, it's fine to just cut and insulate 3.3v wire that feeds the power supply's SATA connectors.
After this modification, the machine thus becomes compatible with all SATA hard drives, whether old or new or shucked or whatever.
(Not much (if anything) in SATA land ever used 3.3v, and it's completely likely that nothing ever will. AFAICT, that voltage was deprecated with the release of revision 3.3 of the SATA specifications, from nearly a decade ago in February of '16.)