RayLomas

Doesn't it apply only to magnetic drives? I vaguely remember that with SSDs sectors (?) might be marked as bad by the firmware and become inaccessible from the OS level, so even running 10 passes of shred won't touch them.

What I mostly want to say - stay strong.

Regarding the question - do you, or other Kurds have a hopes of establishing a fully independent Kurdish state which'll emerge when the chaos in the area calms down?

Yes, but afaik, with HDDs you can manually mark or unmark them with tools like hdparm (what happens after trying to use them is a different thing). I remember reading that with SSDs it can't be done, since the firmware is permitted to shuffle sector mappings for wear levelling. I can't find the source for that though, that's why I posted this question.

Hi there. While it's far from its typical use, I fell in love with harpsichord on that track by Mellow Candle (ooold irish folk band).

Coming to the question - does it sound difficult to play? From what I remember they hated playing it live, and even recording was a great pain.