{"id":338,"date":"2012-11-05T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-02-08T17:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T23:51:05","slug":"dont-ever-buy-used-hard-drives-on-ebay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/2012\/11\/05\/dont-ever-buy-used-hard-drives-on-ebay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&rsquo;t Ever Buy Used Hard Drives on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">Buy them new on Ebay. Most likely if it is used, it will knock. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-rollingonthefloorlaughing\" alt=\"Rolling on the floor laughing\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wlEmoticon-rollingonthefloorlaughing.png\">. Wait a minute. fast-forward to 2018 and most drive are SSDs. No longer a thing we have to worry about. Back in my day, I had to climb a huge hill to get to school. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/wlEmoticon-smile.png\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy them new on Ebay. Most likely if it is used, it will knock. . Wait a minute. fast-forward to 2018 and most drive are SSDs. No longer a thing we have to worry about. Back in my day, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/2012\/11\/05\/dont-ever-buy-used-hard-drives-on-ebay-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kevinp.net\/Personal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}