Fyi, ive had macbooks for years. Apple does some goofy stuff. I forget the specifics but i had a macbook that wouldnt boot up or whatever, and you couldnt just move the drive to a new machine. I think it was the cables and connectors were obsolete. I had to copy the drive to retrieve the data, you couldnt just put the drive on a new machine.
Anyhow, pretty much anytime you mess with a drive internal. You should copy it if you are concerned about losing data. Especially ifyou are being paid to do it. My guess is hunter was told to make sure he had nothing laying around, and to get rid of old computers, but there were certain things hunter wanted off of them, so he couldn’t just destroy them.
The invoice was for data recovery. Cloning the drive is SOP for data recovery off of damaged hardware.
You may be able to pull the water damaged drive, get lucky, and the data is accessible. But keeping it in service after recovery of the data off of it is reckless at best. Only an amateur would ever do such a thing.
Drives with zero damage fail all the time.
Once you know a drive has been compromised in any way, leaving it in service is not an option.
Water damage doesn't mandate cloning a drive. Often you can just pull out the drive and use it. This guy that cloned the drive had big balls.
Wish we had pics of those big balls!
Fyi, ive had macbooks for years. Apple does some goofy stuff. I forget the specifics but i had a macbook that wouldnt boot up or whatever, and you couldnt just move the drive to a new machine. I think it was the cables and connectors were obsolete. I had to copy the drive to retrieve the data, you couldnt just put the drive on a new machine.
Anyhow, pretty much anytime you mess with a drive internal. You should copy it if you are concerned about losing data. Especially ifyou are being paid to do it. My guess is hunter was told to make sure he had nothing laying around, and to get rid of old computers, but there were certain things hunter wanted off of them, so he couldn’t just destroy them.
I disagree with this statement.
The invoice was for data recovery. Cloning the drive is SOP for data recovery off of damaged hardware.
You may be able to pull the water damaged drive, get lucky, and the data is accessible. But keeping it in service after recovery of the data off of it is reckless at best. Only an amateur would ever do such a thing.
Drives with zero damage fail all the time.
Once you know a drive has been compromised in any way, leaving it in service is not an option.