And play golf
If only they did that using 3d additive printing performed by adruino/PV cells powered drones swarm that are controlled using crowd sourcing trough a cloud.
That'd be hardcore....
Technically this is called aristocracy
Here You assume 100% participation...
... mother nature her inspiration from artists
And Your QSA is ?
Don't look down on those questions. The day You try You will realize that designing good problems is *much* harder than solving them.
Talk about a big one...
Are they testing for a buffer overflow?
"HDD is as slow as a dog" beware of this symptom if this behavior does not go away when recreating a filesystem!
Modern hard drives have bad blocks when they are shipped like old ones had (there was a paper with list of bad blocks attached to every new HDD back then).
The difference is that new HDDs have extra space used to relocate bad blocks and do it automatically when they sense that a block is about do die. When there are many relocated blocks it is equivalet to having a fragmented filesystem: for a sequential read the disk head has to seek data in physical places that are afar. The apparent HDD speed decreases as the number of bad blocks increases.
The next stage is to having bad blocks reported by O/S that don't go away when overwritting them. This means that there is so many of them that there is no "extra" space left to relocate them. Your HDD is then basically a colander full of holes and You shouldn't entrust your data to it.
As a side note, after this explanation it should be clear why it happens to be impossible to recover a file due to bad blocks but a after low level format they "vanish". This is not a magic feature of a low level format like "polishing" the plate surface with some strong magnetic field, in reality when a block allocated to a file dies, and You try to read it, the HDD has no choice but to report an error because the data is no longer there, but when You write to it (which low level format does) the block gets relocated.
For this same reason it is recommended to have HDDs holding data that is rarely accessed (typically forensics evidence HDDs) being periodically fully re-read. This forces the relocation of "weak" blocks before they become unreadable.
If You have an idea that You really like, You'll be willing to at least hack a lame half/working prototype by yourself, seeing it functioning would be enough of reward, You would enjoy little implementation details even if it takes to learn some programming skills.
Otherwise Your idea is just a bubble of hot air that even You do not really believe in.
Researchers decide what revenue makes You happiest.
And
I for one welcome or new 75K earning happy overlords.
Ya'll hear about the geometer who went to the beach to catch some rays and became a tangent ?