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Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in
June, 2017. If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed
scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned. I rediscovered
it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and
could not be used for a computer". That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it. I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation
as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to
make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S. My post failed (probably because of the attachment). Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.
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On 27/09/2025 18:16, Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in
June, 2017. If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed
scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned. I rediscovered
it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and
could not be used for a computer". That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it. I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation
as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to
make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S. My post failed (probably because of the attachment). Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

Anything useful here? <https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=207034&sid=9a284b01759d8bc980be7739cf165ea9#p207034>
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Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in
June, 2017.-a If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed scan of the label.

e-s won't allow your binary attachment. You would have to upload that
to a site like https://imgbb.com/ and post your link into a msg.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned.-a I rediscovered
it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

I find a similarly numbered 8TB Ultrastar

HGST Ultrastar He8 | HUH728080ALE600 | 0F23267 | 8TB 7200 RPM 128MB
Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Inch | 512e | Instant Secure Erase | Helium
Platform Hard Disk Drive HDD

But yours is HUG. I can't find any of those.

Here's a WD spec sheet on their HGST He8: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library/en_us/assets/public/western-digital/product/data-center-drives/ultrastar-sas-series/data-sheet-ultrastar-he8.pdf

... but they name only HUH, not HUG drives. They do mention that the H
is for helium and S would be for 'standard'.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and
could not be used for a computer".-a That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it.-a I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

I found a lot of troubleshooting suggestions ranging from trying
multiple USB ports to commands. The first thing is to figure out if the
drive is spinning or not by the feel. There is concern that the USB may
not be delivering enough power, so there is also a suggestion about a
powered USB hub.
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Mike Easter wrote:

There is concern that the USB may not be delivering enough power, so
there is also a suggestion about a powered USB hub.

I have a USB caddy for an optical that uses *2* usb plugs to get some
extra power. My USB external hdd has its own separate power source.

Here are some suggested commands if the drive is spinning:

lsblk
sudo fdisk -l
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On 9/27/25 13:18, Jeff Layman wrote:

Anything useful here?
<https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php? p=207034&sid=9a284b01759d8bc980be7739cf165ea9#p207034>

Thanks for the link.

Nothing useful as far a I can tell. It all seems to be about HDDs with
the IDE interface. Nothing that I can see related to HDDs with the SATA interface.

-jim
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https://ibb.co/CKLqcJHc


On 9/27/25 12:16, Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in
June, 2017.-a If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned.-a I rediscovered
it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and
could not be used for a computer".-a That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it.-a I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation
as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to
make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S.-a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).-a Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

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Jim wrote:

https://ibb.co/CKLqcJHc

It /is/ WD's HUH (helium) that I described and showed the WD spec.

The www.hgst.com link has a bad cert, but it 'belongs' to WD.

I say be sure it is spinning, if it isn't, I would suspect the 'package'
of hdd vs USB power that needs to be 'sorted out'. Does that USB
enclosure work w/ another hdd?
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Mike Easter wrote:

Jim wrote:

https://ibb.co/CKLqcJHc

It /is/ WD's HUH (helium) that I described and showed the WD spec.

The www.hgst.com link has a bad cert, but it 'belongs' to WD.

I say be sure it is spinning, if it isn't, I would suspect the 'package'
of hdd vs USB power that needs to be 'sorted out'.-a Does that USB
enclosure work w/ another hdd?

I don't know what you have to work w/. I consider an 8TB hdd to have
value if it is working, so it would be worth 'messing w/'.

The other approach, besides having a 'good' external USB housing w/ a
decent power supply, would be if you are trying to hook it up to a
desktop computer in a case w/ a PS and hdd mobo connectors.

Could you give us a description of whatever is that USB enclosure
features and what kind of computer (laptop/desktop) you are trying to
access the hdd w/?
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On Sat, 9/27/2025 1:16 PM, Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in June, 2017.-a If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned.-a I rediscovered it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and could not be used for a computer".-a That statement never made sense to me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't recognize it.-a I ran GParted, just in case it did something different. No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S.-a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).-a Someone please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

Hitachi Ultrastar He8 0F23662 / HUH728080ALN600 8TB 6Gbps 7.2K

*4Kn* <===

Enterprise SATA HDD - Brand New

*******

Name LogicalSize PhysicalSize Comment (sudo fdisk /dev/sda can report logical and physical... on a "p" for print, "q" for quit)

512n 512 512 Not many made any more, the original disk format
I have somw WDRe and WDGold like this.

512e 512 4096 Most common consumer drive, may see "Advanced" on label.
RAM cache now really works on these drives, and is used
for RMW operations to "edit" a 512 byte section of a 4K sector

4Kn 4096 4096 These are evil, in that there aren't as many tools to work
with these. As a boot drive, should work under UEFI boot
(secure or not secure). As a Data Drive, should work past
Linux kernel 2.6 . It is unclear to me, what an MBR looks like
on a disk like this. Test on a UEFI motherboard and seek an
opinion in the BIOS screen, as to whether it is detected
at BIOS level. In a steeplechase, you jump over one hurdle
at a time. First you use the BIOS, to prove it runs. Stick your
ear on it and listen for "hum" or "burble" as it self-tests.
The "burble" means at least the heads loaded. Hitachi drives
are ready around the 25 second mark (take sweet time on spinup).

For a short time, 4Kn drives were sold on Newegg. The rate
of return was high enough, to make Newegg think twice about
stocking those :-) I have been tempted on occasion, to buy
something like that, just for compatibility testing, but
never got around to it.

Pseudo-4K USB enclosures, a few exist. I do not remember the
details, except that the drive was reporting LogicalSize of 4K,
for a 512e drive. Something like that.

I have a suspicion the average USB3 enclosure, may not
like that drive either (when doing physical access, and
not "faking it" like in the previous paragraph. Unless specifically
stated that an enclosure supports 4Kn, there is no reason to assume
every USB works with absolutely every drive type. A USB3 enclosure
should always work with 512n and 512e.

And 512 sector drives are not the only type. IBM used
to make some weird sector sizes, a bit bigger than 512.
And as far as I'm concerned, if that was added to the
table above, it would earn a "more evil than 4Kn" rating :-)
I do not recollect any postings at all from USENETTers in
possession of something that bad (likely IDE drive era).

The Wikipedia could be a useful resource at this time,
like the 4Kn article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format

Looks like UEFI gets honorable mention as an ingredient for boot.

I don't see a reason you can't have fun with it, but first
we have to ignore the OS choice and concentrate on BIOS response.

If the (UEFI!) BIOS refuses to list the drive ("detection" phase),
then you're screwed. Helium drives can hold their helium
for a long time, but the warranty is typically five years.
The Helioseal is implemented as an adhesive. It is a
kind of double-sided tape that prevents the helium from
leaving. The welded lid on top is NOT a gas-tight seal.
It is the selected adhesive on the *first* lid that
holds the gas in. The welded lid prevents the adhesive lid
from popping off. The welded lid also provides some
mechanical protection. I do not recommend stacking Helium
drives in your storage cabinet, to any significant height.
That can't be good for those lids.

Some helium drives have a manometer, and SMART has a
pressure reading, but nobody has parsing software that works
properly to display anything about the health of the gas fill.
We don't know what the numbers mean.
Other drives, the SMART for gas pressure is unknown.

I own one Helium drive. It's part of my "sampling garbage" program :-)
It's to see how long the gas will stay in one of those. My
"sampling program" though, has not purchased a 4Kn for fun,
as I found too many aggrieved customers to attempt that.

It's sorta the same response with mixing SATA and SAS.
Many things are supposed to work, but a lot of the
home experimenters return their purchase. The data rates
achieved seem to be sub-normal, when you can get that
combo to work.

Computers are like the Wizard of Oz. You're always
wishing you were back in Kansas with your little dog.
You can consult with us anytime, you want some help
determining "good" from "evil" :-) And since my sampling
program has not bought one of these, you can see
what the marginal utility of the purchase could be.

Don't throw it away. We need experimenters like you to
sample these things and tell us what you finally got
to work with the thing. BIOS listing, is the first step.
Use a reasonably modern motherboard (less than ten years old).

Paul
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On Sat, 9/27/2025 5:42 PM, Paul wrote:

On Sat, 9/27/2025 1:16 PM, Jim wrote:

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't recognize it.

Use a reasonably modern motherboard (less than ten years old).

I am referring to using a desktop computer system SATA port.

And connecting the 8TB 4Kn Hitachi to the SATA port. That's how you will detect it.
It's almost certain to not work on a USB to SATA adapter. I've got
nothing here in the USB category that can do that for a 4Kn. I bet
they exist, but you'll have to Google to find one. You don't
get that capability in all the USB to SATA adapters, just a few.

A USB device, it uses things like an 8 bit processor and a firmware,
and that firmware carries out analysis of the info coming back from
the drive. If there are anomalies showing there (4Kn when it was only
expecting 512n or 512e), then the firmware won't know what to do.

Even the UEFI BIOS on a desktop system motherboard is easily confused. I
own a single Seagate 4TB drive (512e), that if you install an OS on it,
it causes the UEFI motherboard BIOS to hang at POST. According
to a thread I could find, there is a particular kind of query for
the drive, that is fails to answer. It's the kind of thing,
that Seagate should have issued a new firmware for the hard
drive, so that it would be ATA compliant. But as near as I
can tell, that is a first gen model of that particular
drive design, and some later models in the same series got
firmware fixes for something else. Just my luck. If I make
the drive GPT and just put a data partition on it, then it
does not hang the UEFI BIOS, but a data-only drive is a bore.

Paul


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First, thanks to all that are helping me.

Second, answers to pertinent questions...

1) HDD Caddy: the one I've been using is a Sabrent Model Number:
EC_ECDFLT with a 2000mA wall wart (external) power supply. It has
worked successfully for 25+ different hard drives.

2) HDD spinning: Yes, it spins. I can both hear it spin and feel it. Related: also, I can hear a subtle click (possibly the heads unparking).
I know someone out there is thinking click-of-death. I know the click-of-death sound from prior experience. This is not that, and is
much much quieter. Also it only happens two or possibly three times.

3) HDD Computer: Knowing and appreciating distrust of extra links, I
plugged the HDD into a dell Optiplex 740 I had sitting around.
Observations:
a) The clicking I mentioned in #2 sounds/feels more like a bump.
b) The click/bump happened for exactly 7 times FWIW.
c) The BIOS didn't recognize the drive. Not only that, the drive
crashed the bios when I went to see what specs the BIOS was able to
read. The BIOS performed fine with no HDDs attached. The BIOS
performed fine with a known good HDD attached.


Paul a) Thanks for all the info and links. The Wikipedia article looks interesting, but I didn't really understand it at first skim and have
other obligations soon. Hope to read it in detail this evening.
Paul b) I've never had/owned a helium drive before and didn't realize
that was what i had.
Paul c) I guess that Optiplex is probably too old to be a "reasonably
modern motherboard." :) I'll have to look at some of my other computers
to see how old they are. I generally ignore the age if it seems to be
working adequately. :(


Next steps ?


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On Sun, 9/28/2025 11:48 AM, Jim wrote:

First, thanks to all that are helping me.

Second, answers to pertinent questions...

1) HDD Caddy: the one I've been using is a Sabrent Model Number: EC_ECDFLT with a 2000mA wall wart (external) power supply.-a It has worked successfully for 25+ different hard drives.

2) HDD spinning:-a Yes, it spins.-a I can both hear it spin and feel it. Related: also, I can hear a subtle click (possibly the heads unparking). -aI know someone out there is thinking click-of-death.-a I know the click-of-death sound from prior experience.-a This is not that, and is much much quieter.-a Also it only happens two or possibly three times.

3) HDD Computer: Knowing and appreciating distrust of extra links, I plugged the HDD into a dell Optiplex 740 I had sitting around. Observations:
-a a) The clicking I mentioned in #2 sounds/feels more like a bump.
-a b) The click/bump happened for exactly 7 times FWIW.
-a c) The BIOS didn't recognize the drive.-a Not only that, the drive crashed the bios when I went to see what specs the BIOS was able to read.-a The BIOS performed fine with no HDDs attached.-a The BIOS performed fine with a known good HDD attached.

Paul a) Thanks for all the info and links.-a The Wikipedia article looks interesting, but I didn't really understand it at first skim and have other obligations soon.-a Hope to read it in detail this evening.
Paul b) I've never had/owned a helium drive before and didn't realize that was what i had.
Paul c) I guess that Optiplex is probably too old to be a "reasonably modern motherboard." :)-a I'll have to look at some of my other computers to see how old they are.-a I generally ignore the age if it seems to be working adequately. :(

Next steps ?

Do you have access to any other desktop motherboards with SATA ?

A quick Google for the right kind of USB enclosure is getting me nowhere.

The thing is, there are few remaining choices for USB to SATA adapter chips. Some of the weird chip choices back in the WinXP era, are likely no longer
in production. And they would only have given you a headache in any case.

A lot of the enclosures use Asmedia (chip making company at Asus).
There might be a few JMicron. I don't know if there are a lot of
obscure Chinese chip choices for this.

Just stick with motherboards and their SATA ports, and that will prepare
the drive in the "normal" way (no emulation screwups). That's about the
most I can offer.

I think my ten year old machine, would handle your drive just fine,
and the ten year old machine runs sufficient OSes to work and interwork
with the drive. Any of the machines (that are still alive) and older
than ten years, in my collection, won't work.

My Optiplex 780 with Q45 Southbridge and Core2 processor, it does not
look like the BIOS on that is UEFI, so unlikely to tolerate a 4Kn drive.

*******

I could drive to my computer store, go to the Support desk (where they
build computers up from parts), and ask the guy to pop the disk into
one of their technician machines, and do a quick check on it. But that
would cost something, and the thing is, this drive is only worth rescuing
as a DIY project. I wouldn't sink another dime in the thing, via
getting help at the computer store.

And the staff are unlikely to have a clue about "do you have any USB
enclosures that support 4Kn?". My guess is they don't have any. If an
enclosure had such a feature, it would be proudly displayed in the advert.

I suspect some NAS boxes *might* support such drives. But NAS boxes
with BYOD features (sold as empty NAS boxes), they cost hundreds and considering the NAS investment, you'd just be buying new drives to
stuff in it. And buying an old/used NAS box would also be sketchy
for the project, if it was... too old. There are probably NAS boxes
out there, with IDE ribbon cables inside them, that someone wants
a few bucks for. That would be no good.

1) Put it back in storage.
2) When the right motherboard shows up some day, give it a test.
It is unlikely to be much fun, and mostly aggravation, until
the right equipment for it shows up.

Paul
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On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:10:37 -0500
Jim <jcm_spectrum@spectrum.net> wrote:

https://ibb.co/CKLqcJHc

On 9/27/25 12:16, Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in June, 2017.a If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned.a I rediscovered
it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and could not be used for a computer".a That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it.a I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S.a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).a Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

I have taken to using Dropbox for several months.
For light use it is free. It comes up on Synaptic.
You upload your pictures to DB and then create link which you publish to whom you want.
HTH
Alan
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On 9/27/25 1:16 PM, Jim wrote:

P.S. My post failed (probably because of the attachment). Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

https://postimages.org/ is free, just takes a login.
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On 9/29/25 3:45 PM, pinnerite wrote:

On Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:10:37 -0500
Jim <jcm_spectrum@spectrum.net> wrote:

https://ibb.co/CKLqcJHc


On 9/27/25 12:16, Jim wrote:

Quite a few years I purchased a white label HDD from an eBay seller.

It was an HGST 8TB (model HUG728080ALN600 -- guessing) manufactured in
June, 2017.-a If the attachment to this post worked out, it is a flatbed >>> scan of the label.

Anyway, I never could get it formatted and partitioned.-a I rediscovered >>> it yesterday while cleaning and organizing a closet.

From what I recall, this drive was "built for video surveillance and
could not be used for a computer".-a That statement never made sense to
me and I've never had similar problems with other hard drives.

When I plugged it into my SATA-->USB caddy, just now, LM didn't
recognize it.-a I ran GParted, just in case it did something different.
No joy.

FWIW, my desktop is running LM 21.3 Cinnamon.

Before I toss the HDD, I thought I'd ask for either a better explanation >>> as to why I'll never get it to work, or for the proper steps to take to
make it work.

Thanks, jim.

P.S.-a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).-a Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

I have taken to using Dropbox for several months.
For light use it is free. It comes up on Synaptic.
You upload your pictures to DB and then create link which you publish to whom you want.

HTH

Alan

Dropbox shows in synaptic. I thought synaptic was just for installing software?
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Alan K. wrote:

I thought synaptic was just for installing software?

Sez:

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and
videos anywhere and share them easily.

This package provides a command-line tool and a Nautilus extension
that integrates the Dropbox web service with your GNOME Desktop.

There are also caja-dropbox, nemo-dropbox, besides nautilus-dropbox

Nemo Dropbox is an extension that integrates the Dropbox web service with your Cinnamon Desktop.

Caja Dropbox is an extension that integrates the Dropbox web service with your MATE Desktop.

To use this package you need to install the proprietary dropbox package
from https://www.dropbox.com/install.

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On 9/29/25 4:29 PM, Mike Easter wrote:

Alan K. wrote:

I thought synaptic was just for installing software?

Sez:

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and
videos anywhere and share them easily.

This package provides a command-line tool and a Nautilus extension
that integrates the Dropbox web service with your GNOME Desktop.

There are also caja-dropbox, nemo-dropbox, besides nautilus-dropbox

Nemo Dropbox is an extension that integrates the Dropbox web service with
your Cinnamon Desktop.

Caja Dropbox is an extension that integrates the Dropbox web service with
your MATE Desktop.

To use this package you need to install the proprietary dropbox package
from https://www.dropbox.com/install.

Sorry, I flat out didn't get your comment. Of course dropbox is in synaptic. Something had me thinking the implication was you got synaptic to interface to dropbox
itself. I just couldn't connect those dots. (duh), Senior moment.
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On Mon, 9/29/2025 4:03 PM, Alan K. wrote:

On 9/27/25 1:16 PM, Jim wrote:

P.S.-a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).-a Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

https://postimages.org/ is free, just takes a login.

It works without an account.

It was partially non-functional earlier today (half way through
analyzing your uploaded picture, it stopped dead).

Don't put any Disney characters or Mickey Mouse in your
pictures, as it has a Hollywood-style filter for content
analysis. I think that was a more recent addition to the site.

The site uses $30,000 for bandwidth per month, to give you
some idea how busy the site is. This was noted on a text prompt
that appeared on the web page for a while. the impression left,
was that the owner of the postimage, had rented server space
and the server happened to come with "unlimited bandwidth". That is,
until the owner of the COLO discovered just how much bandwidth
the web site was using, and postimage got slapped with a big bill
(even though the rental had "unlimited" bandwidth). There was some
mild disagreement between the two parties about what was
reasonable network usage.

For the recipients of the pictures, there is a "Download Original"
button at the top of the visited web page, allowing you to get
the full-resolution version of the image.

Paul
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On 29/09/2025 20:45, pinnerite wrote:

P.S.-a My post failed (probably because of the attachment).-a Someone
please remind me where to put pictures and how to link to to them.

I have taken to using Dropbox for several months.
For light use it is free. It comes up on Synaptic.
You upload your pictures to DB and then create link which you publish to whom you want.

I use <https://imgbb.com/> to make images accessible. It's free for
limited use and doesn't even require an email address.
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Jeff
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:54:02 -0400, Paul wrote:

And the staff are unlikely to have a clue about "do you have any USB enclosures that support 4Kn?".

If yourCOd said rCL4K sectorsrCY, I would have understood.
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