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What do you guys do with decommissioned but functional hard-drives?

by vxNsr 8y ago

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rtkwe 8y ago
Like google probably wipe and maybe shred. I thought they were all shredded but it turns out they do sell decommissioned drives if they can be verified as 100% wiped. Google actually recently upgraded to using a robotic arm to manage the wiping and shredding of drives. [0] [0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/robots-now-annihilate-hard-drives-google-data-centers https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/robots-n...
- briffle 8y ago
  I wonder where I can purchase those.. I have a personal Plex Server that could use a few 4TB used drives that are cheap.
  - rtkwe 8y ago
    I'm betting they probably sell them to a bulk reseller of which there are many. If you're looking to buy from one they're out there but may or may not be looking for small customers.
- WaxProlix 8y ago
  Little confusing, are you referring to shred the tool or some physical destruction process? https://linux.die.net/man/1/shred https://linux.die.net/man/1/shred
  - rtkwe 8y ago
    Physically shredding. https://youtu.be/TQoKFovvigI?t=98 https://youtu.be/TQoKFovvigI?t=98
  - sithadmin 8y ago
    Physical destruction. Destruction of decommissioned drives by shredding, crushing, or passing a bolt through the drive is a standard practice for security-sensitive operators. Some IaaS operators I've worked with extend this to every component of systems that could ever hold customer or proprietary data in memory.
- notyourday 8y ago
  Smart way of doing a wipe is to kill the encryption keys needed to access the data.
  - londons_explore 8y ago
    It's hard to 100 percent know your keys haven't been stolen. They are very small things, easily smuggled out in an ICMP packet, and must be in RAM of whatever machine the disk is in. For many businesses, crushing the disk makes better business sense than take the risk that they have historically lost encryption keys and are now about to hand their data away to an attacker.
aarongolliver 8y ago
answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481

What do you guys do with decommissioned but functional hard-drives?

by vxNsr 8y ago

What do you guys do with decommissioned but functional hard-drives?

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rtkwe 8y ago

Like google probably wipe and maybe shred. I thought they were all shredded but it turns out they do sell decommissioned drives if they can be verified as 100% wiped. Google actually recently upgraded to using a robotic arm to manage the wiping and shredding of drives. [0] [0] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/robots-now-annihilate-hard-drives-google-data-centers https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/google-alphabet/robots-n...

briffle 8y ago
I wonder where I can purchase those.. I have a personal Plex Server that could use a few 4TB used drives that are cheap.
- rtkwe 8y ago
  I'm betting they probably sell them to a bulk reseller of which there are many. If you're looking to buy from one they're out there but may or may not be looking for small customers.
WaxProlix 8y ago
Little confusing, are you referring to shred the tool or some physical destruction process? https://linux.die.net/man/1/shred https://linux.die.net/man/1/shred
- rtkwe 8y ago
  Physically shredding. https://youtu.be/TQoKFovvigI?t=98 https://youtu.be/TQoKFovvigI?t=98
- sithadmin 8y ago
  Physical destruction. Destruction of decommissioned drives by shredding, crushing, or passing a bolt through the drive is a standard practice for security-sensitive operators. Some IaaS operators I've worked with extend this to every component of systems that could ever hold customer or proprietary data in memory.
notyourday 8y ago
Smart way of doing a wipe is to kill the encryption keys needed to access the data.
- londons_explore 8y ago
  It's hard to 100 percent know your keys haven't been stolen. They are very small things, easily smuggled out in an ICMP packet, and must be in RAM of whatever machine the disk is in. For many businesses, crushing the disk makes better business sense than take the risk that they have historically lost encryption keys and are now about to hand their data away to an attacker.

aarongolliver 8y ago

answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18231481