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ah... should have written How can one safely delete (and not destroy) an SSD disk? :)
by quijoteuniv 5y ago
ah... should have written How can one safely delete (and not destroy) an SSD disk? :)
- LinuxBender 5y agoI was just taking you literally (delete the disk and not the data) since this is a common pattern in the financial sector. Dell and HP have an optional and more expensive "keep your disk" policy so that you can have companies like Iron Mountain show up, scan the barcodes on the bad disks and shred them on site. You get a certificate (receipt really) that has the serial numbers of the drives you shredded. I was at a company that had this policy for over 50k servers. Not cheap, but totally worth it when you can assure your customers all data is destroyed regardless of encryption methods. Another reason I listed this option is a response to debates you will see online about data wiping, reserved blocks, spare blocks, vendor low level formatting tools, vendor encryption tools, etc... Physically destroying the disk answers those concerns and may be a viable option for someone if the data they wish to remove could harm themselves or their business if the data is leaked or otherwise mismanaged. If a drive is let's say $1200, but leaking data could cost you a percentage of $120 billion in stock / market cap, then shredding the disk is simple and obvious choice.