# The Yard of Hard Drives Episode

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Podcast: [Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jason-scott-talks-his-way-out-of-it-176848)
Published: 2025-12-26T06:11:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 609

## Resource

The Yard of Hard Drives Episode: Throwing Hands with Backlogs, The Literal Yard, Drives Cast Out, The Grind of Pain, Survivorship Bias, The Success and the Failure, The Arcane Nature of Repair, The Realization of Entropy, The River Styx. I find myself staring down many, many hard drives left in the yard, and try to find value and rescue in what I can get. It's going fine! But it's noisy.

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