The ‘H/W Quick Erase’ function, which fries the flash memory, should probably have a more forbidding name.

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    8 days ago

    The magic smoke comes out so that you know its working. It’s a very human design.

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      I always wanted a novelty 5 inch bay device that was release a small wisp of smoke from the front of the pc case, like mission impossible. It could be a command, or randomized and it would councide with a BSOD or just a power-off command (probably screen off now that I think about it).