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Reddit’s SecretHDD Solved? – Tales From the Internet

Whang! | April 14, 2026



The story of a mysteries hard drive found by a redditor named SecretHDD inspired curiosity around the Internet for over six years. Although the trail went cold long ago, my last video on the subject seemed to reignite the search.

The renewed interest story caused Dovic, who was supposed to restore the hard drive, to return to reddit for an AMA. I might have also brought out one of the original owners of the SecretHDD account.

First SecretHDD Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo567CIqdHM

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  1. @Trogramming

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    Apparently I haven't subscribed yet, but 90% of my suggestions are Whang so I'm worried that when I do I'll never get any other content.
    Still, I have finally subscribed.

  2. @cindyzxec

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    also those old hard drive would only have storage capacity like megs. so nothing much can be store maybe a source code for something cool culd e store since it be in text .

    it's kidna dumb to store stuff this way and hide it for someone else to find? and not hidden well, too easy to find since all you need is to feel the bag.

  3. @greglocker2124

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    Did I see that right? Was the storage capacity really that low??? What in the actual hell can you store in a 2000 MB drive? Its so crazy trying to imagine running a whole operating system and basic office applications on something like that. Add on top the fact they probably used Windows with it… I bet they had to turn that thing on Monday morning so that it could finish booting just in time for Sunday night's Pong championship.

    Seriously, I bet it was more like the pony express than pushing a button. For reference, I'm pretty sure the first 20 seconds of this video would be over capacity for that drive, and that's including literally nothing (OS, apps, stored data) which is extremely unlikely since there should be nowhere to stuff a supplemental HDD on a laptop because laptops shouldn't have giant empty cases for various obvious reasons.

    Update: asked GPT before posting, they were common in the 90's and early 00's, but around that time data storage tech exploded and we had multipe hundreds of GB becoming standard by the beginning of the 10's. GPT decided to throw in at the end that there is no conceicable use for such a device now besides antiquing. GPT can be such an absolute savage sometimes…

  4. @EmmaSpAce111

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    “I remember the last names of all my friends from elementary school” I have forgotten the name of someone I’m friends with FOUR TIMES and they had to reintroduce themselves every time we met again for the “first” time. Some of us just have bad memories, I don’t care about that redditor being real, but it does kind of bother me that he expects people to remember all their friends’ names after years of no contact.

    I can remember my elementary school friends’ names though so maybe they were on to something

  5. @rocknexus5749

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    Damn those guys in the subreddit are cringe as hell bro like "in dovic we trust in dovic we love KEEP FAITH BROTHERS AND SISTERS!!! "
    "the temptress"
    bro that shit corny as hell chill OUT

  6. @joshc5613

    April 14, 2026 at 8:52 pm

    dezmodez talks like exactly the type of guy who would mod a subreddit like this. "in dovic we trust, in dovic we love"? "keep the faith brothers"? why don't you keep the faith in some bitches dude 💀

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