alt Hacker NewsAn encrypyted drive is likely to have (close to) equal numbers of 0's and 1's full or empty so any of these arguments are moot.
An encrypyted drive is likely to have (close to) equal numbers of 0's and 1's full or empty so any of these arguments are moot.
If the drive isn't encrypted, is it possible that controllers use some kind of encoding to balance out the number of bits, so that there's not a long run of 0s or 1s?