1 liter PC's (tiny/mini/micro), or some N100 type build + external bay is likely your best bet. If it's really that small, you might have heat issues.

Not as much as expected. I have several toy ZFS pools out of ancient 3tb wd reds, and anything remotely home-grade (stripped mirrors, 4,6,8 wide raidz1/2) saturates the disks before 10gig networking. As long as it's sequential, 8gb or 128gb doesn't matter.

Complex issue- analog NAND doesn't work anything like the Logic in CPUs.

Far more often it's the act of simply letting a device sit unpowered itself that 'fixes' the issue. Speculation on what changed invariably goes on indefinitely

And exclude China from the eBay regions. All the drives I've had with reset smart data came from China.

I'd rather see 3Pb of 5Pb writes used than an obviously pretend 2Gib written.

Disagree. You should never trust SMART data from second hand drives, full stop. No matter if it's wiped or not.

If you're US domestic market, then yeah, you can usually avoid Chinese vendors. If you're EU or elsewhere, China can often be the main/only source of affordable drives vs domestic market. Really depends (I don't shop for international buds/clients, but I constantly hear about how the homelabbers across the pond have significantly higher prices/lower availability for surplus enterprise gear in general)

Stick to the rules on reliable vendors with a return policy, buy in bulk with the expectation that some will be bad (not a given, but good to be prepared), and the only issue from buying from china is delayed shipping times.

It's not about the numbers as much as it is the LIE. There's no legitimate reason to take the extra steps to wipe a drives internal state clean. Like rolling odometers back, it has one purpose: fraud.

Any explanation on the total lack of a voltage plataue around 3.6-3.8v?

What kind of plateau would you expect to see?

Wow that's tacky.

Looks like it was half written.

But, step #1 is pull up it's spec sheet and replicate their capacity testing method. At least for single cells. For packs there's not much you can do but buy from trusted places- manufacturer, bhphoto (for cameras).

18650batterystore has always been good to me, at least for the 300 Samsung 25R's I bought.

Blame the spud monopoly for that one.

I wish I was joking.

Honestly, the idea that supplements are harmless... Is harmful.

The number of supplements that boost or deplete things like CYP3A4 (commonly known as don't eat grapefruit on BP meds) is responsible for an unknown number of unintentional overdose deaths- and healthcare is such that frequently doctors don't realize it at all.

When you leak that much metadata, it's disenginious to call it encrypted.