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"keep your drive" option is for people that need to physically shred their drives when they fail. Many financial organizations utilize this policy and document
by LinuxBender 4y ago
"keep your drive" option is for people that need to physically shred their drives when they fail. Many financial organizations utilize this policy and document it in their SOC1/SOC2 controls and sometimes in their customer contracts. I was in a cloud provider that did this with over 50k servers.
- spoonjim 4y agoI’ve seen one of these shredders in action. You can just throw in a handful of full 3.5 inch drives and they just fucking vanish.
- LinuxBender 4y agoIndeed. In our case mobile shredding services would pull up to our datacenters around the world and DC Operations would bring them out on a cart. They scan the serial numbers and then same deal, into the machine, out as tiny specs of metal.
- sneak 4y agoEver do a whole chicken or pig? You know, for science?
- spoonjim 4y agoThere wouldn’t be much science. It would definitely just vanish.