> Or are we seriously going to say slavery isn't a problem as long as as it isn't in our own backyard? So slavery in the 1800's was a problem but we can live with the fruits of modern day forced labor since we want our cheap iPhone?
Modern day forced labor is still allowed and utilised in the United Stated - it's mandatory for all able-bodied inmates in federal and most state prisons. For an additional kicker, US is also leading the world in both absolute and percentage of population measures of people incarcerated and has for decades.
The difference with what is happening in China is how targeted it is, what the conditions of labor are and how eager various US corporations are to directly use fruits of said labor - but it is just as immoral.
That's assuming it does not issue ATA Secure Erase to the drive - whilst WD drives of the era were using absolutely atrocious controllers for the most part, it would be enough to thwart testdisk.
Earlier reports put the mass at explicitly "4 metric tons" [0][1], so it is a bit of a guess either way.
> I'm not sure about the SI conversion of the semitractor-trailer units.
Are we talking Arizona trailers, normal NA trailers or international-compliant sizes to begin with?
[0] https://www.space.com/spacex-rocket-crashing-into-moon-crate... [1] https://www.livescience.com/spacex-rocket-to-hit-moon