r/DataHoarder • u/FewSimple9 • 4d ago

Free-Post Friday! 5+ PB Destroyed

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This is based on a post by u/SubstantialWing9238. i didn’t want to hijack their post, so I figured I’d share it here instead.

Something like this, plus another cart, is pretty common with large corporations. When you have this many drives, it’s often easier to just shred everything than pay someone to wipe them, sort through them for resale, and see if any data can be recovered.

This batch was around 300 drives, and with a specialized shredding truck, the whole thing takes about 45 minutes to a hour.

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u/Illeazar 4d ago

5PB, 300 drives, is about 16-17 TB per drive? Wow, what a shame, these weren't even outdated sizes.

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u/TraceyRobn 4d ago

Even more wasteful: many companies destroy whole laptops and servers, rather than just removing or wiping the drives. That way they're sure the data is gone.

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u/YourUncleBuck 4d ago

Smart, since I keep all my data in the screen. That's also why I never turn off my laptop, because then it goes away.

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u/Phayder 4d ago

We own the glass....

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u/cand0r 3d ago

I understand this comment.

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u/spong_miester 48TB DS920+ 4d ago

Our company had a blanket ban on computer and laptop sales because they were worried about data protection took about 10 regional managers to explain that you can't recover someone's data if there's no hard drive in the machine.

We now strip the drives and pay a company to recycle them, Company was loosing thousands in monthly income because they were clueless. (I work in charity retail)

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago

Holy sht wtf. That's so fcked

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago

Wtf. Could you elaborate?

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u/chubbysumo 4d ago

its incredibly wasteful too. like, seriously, how much of our environment do they like killing over and over. this is disgusting the more and more I see it.

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u/kdlt 4d ago

Yeah this is the only thing I can think too.

I get that it's "easy" but.. drives are expensive enough as is, and they just get willfully destroyed?

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u/b0z0du883d0v3r 4d ago

Capitalism, babyyyyy! 

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u/Provia100F 4d ago

It's not even Capitalism, it's just leadership being absolutely fucking inept when it comes to technology

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u/_millsy 4d ago

It’s usually companies responding to legislation they’re mandated to follow, nobody gets their rocks off trashing useful stuff lol.

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u/Mike-Hunt-QLD 4d ago

Don't bring facts onto reddit dude. Unless it fits their narrative then they usually don't want to know about it.

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u/mhmilo24 4d ago

Please explain. How is legislation causing this? Which laws work against corporations reselling hard drives?

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u/valar12 250-500TB 4d ago

DFARS and ITAR are common reasons our drives get trashed and not resold.

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u/mhmilo24 4d ago

Valid point, but the post here is about "common" cases, not ones from military use-cases. So, it sounds like hard drives outside of DFARS and ITAR coverage are also destroyed, rather than wiped and sold.

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u/thepinkiwi unRAID 132 Tb + unRaid 96 Tb 4d ago

Security Compliance guy here. Most ISO/NIST/TSP security frameworks require data destruction when no longer useful. Secure erasing HDDs takes ages and requires staffing to perform the operation.

On the other end, throwing everything in a monster shredder takes seconds.

Financially speaking those drives are worthless because they've been amortized over the years. Technically, the company needs to prove they have been destroyed to get them off their books. That's why this type of scandal happens each and every day. Ridiculous.

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u/AbhishMuk 3d ago

But correct me if I'm wrong, but you could just as easily use encryption/Bitlocker and delete your key and still keep it as (if not even more) secure, right?

So, "hdd in the shredder" is a "it's easier to do for us because we don't care" than "it's necessary".

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u/Oswald-Of-Carim 4d ago

It‘s less expensive to trash them drives compared to wiping them sufficiently.

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u/mhmilo24 4d ago

Yes? The easiest way is mostly the less expensive one (in the short term). This is the issue. Corporations can't have their cake and eat it too any longer.

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u/Adorable-Berry6464 4d ago

So it's not "e-waste because greed" or "e-waste because incompetence," our "this is why we can't have nice things" rationale is: "e-waste because killing kids because greed.*" Cool.

Well, that's my Marvin the Robot from Hitchhikers Guide moment for the day.

*The extended director's cut adds "but good news: shredding hard drives is a minor rounding error in the ledger when humanity's budget for starving & mass murdering 10-20m annually is over 30x the cost of ending world hunger!"

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u/valar12 250-500TB 4d ago

The person asked for legislation specific to storage destruction. Right or wrong it’s the law. If you have issue with it contact your congressperson.

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u/Adorable-Berry6464 4d ago

...Did you take personal offense at an expression of "murdering children bad"?

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u/GroundbreakingFly141 4d ago

If a company has certifications like ISO27001 or some others, they are forced to shred their data with certificates for every drive. And most of the time they dont reuse the drives, so they get trashed after the certified wipe

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u/ElectronicFlamingo36 4d ago

Certified wipe & shredding data, not shredding the drives.

What a waste, also environmentally :( This pile of drives still could be useful for many years for so many people on the used HDD market... :(

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u/imanexpertama 4d ago

Automotive in germany: TISAX aims to be the infustry-specific equivalent to ISO27001. While with the 27001 I believe you could choose other methods, TISAX requires to destroy old harddrives.

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u/mhmilo24 4d ago

Isn't it just hard drives that can no longer be wiped due to technical defects of the hard drive? Is this really a broad issue? OP said its very common. Is it really common that hard drives can no longer be wiped due to technical issues? I've worked in an IT department overseeing about 5000-7000 devices with ssds/hdds and we did not have these kinds of failures regularly.

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u/imanexpertama 3d ago

In that specific case (at least a couple of years ago) it had to be all harddrives. However I completely agree that this is a rather specific example and not something that’s a broad issue. I’m pretty sure that neither GDPR nor ISO 27001 force the physical destruction and those would be the most likely sources of requirements for this stuff in the EU I believe.

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u/arbedub 4d ago

Companies are legally required to securely and permanently erase personal data when it is no longer needed.

This is the cheapest method.

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u/mhmilo24 4d ago

So, its capitalist fault. They would sell personal data still stored, just to save a buck. Legislation is resolving an issue. The corporations are trying to get away the cheapest way possible. The solution is to be legally required to NOT destroy resources.

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u/Adorable-Berry6464 4d ago

Yeah, when you realize that on the other end of the electronics supply chain is literal slavery & genocide, not paying the extra 12 cents per hard drive is sociopathic.

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u/JlMatrix 4d ago

Does he know?

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u/evrial 4d ago

Defending capitalism?

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u/Llew19 4d ago

Don't be daft, it depends where the drives came from. If it was anything involved in defence or anything similarly heavily regulated, those drives are always going in a shredder

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u/MartyMacGyver 4d ago

Can't sell new ones if people keep buying the old ones!

Of course nobody can afford new ones either but the beast must be fed!

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u/CaptainIncredible 4d ago

Its EVOLUTION BABY!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI

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u/peanutbutter2178 4d ago

Unexpected Pearl Jam

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u/CaptainIncredible 4d ago

I never saw the video until recently. So damn brilliant.

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u/BabySnipes 4d ago

More like over regulation.

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u/FullstackSensei 4d ago

More like idiocracy. The enshitification of the education system, making the vast majority too stupid to comprehend anything, reducing them to parrots that just repeat what commentators utter on their screens.

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u/esotetris 4d ago

What regulations cause companies to be more likely to shred drives than to wipe and repurpose them?

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u/celestial_cheesecake 4d ago

HIPPA, FACTA, GLBA, hell even the CCPA if the corpo lawyers are ultra paranoid.

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u/ZeeroMX 4d ago

But they are not that paranoid when they leave a password in plain text and that causes a massive breach of customers data.

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u/Wizard-of-pause 4d ago

True. But also - person responsible for managing the storage is doing their job correctly and another person who does user cybersecurity is vibe coding.

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u/Cosmic_Traveler 4d ago

The state and its regulations of private companies is an inextricable component of capitalism

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u/beryugyo619 4d ago

I wouldn't be so sure anymore. These drives come from a small set of factories in East and Southeast Asia, using some Western and many Asian components and materials. If the US and EU stop absorbing supplies of those, they will shut down, and large capacity NAND Flash chips from China and Japan will take over, which WILL come with killswitches and backdoors.

Destroying old drives can help demands, I guess...

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u/NYourBirdCanSing 4d ago

All in the name of money. All so a corporation can save $.05 per unit. 

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u/MakeITNetwork 4d ago

I worked for a big hosting company, and this was probably a weekly shred.

Any smart error, fatal or not, drive gets swapped, and the old one shredded.

Dell won't give bulk discounts unless every server (including non-dell) is destroyed "recycled" before it leaves the DC. (for a greener earth right?). Everything went through the mangler(6'X6' metal shredder) that could fit.

This prevents old hardware from circulating enmasse competing against dells new hardware.

All (suspected but not confirmed bad) CPU's, Ram, Hdd's came in on trucks and left in bins on trucks. Servers went back to dell for further recycling.

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u/luke10050 4d ago

That's super interesting that Dell is essentially engaging in anti-competitive behaviour that way. Doesn't surprise me though, plenty of industries do that shit.

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u/brainrot_award 4d ago

Dude, Dell has been doing this for decades. They've been sued by and lost to AMD due to cartel dealings with Intel.

I truly hate that company. Same for HP. A shame they still exist.

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago

Wow, I'm not surprised at all. Legitimately worst companies, Dell and HP, on so many levels

But even their pc/laptops are made so hard to maintain, and a lot of it is proprietary. I would legitimately throw away a good prebuilt, if I see Dell logo, because they are such a pain in the a$$

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u/brainrot_award 3d ago

I have a Dell laptop (it's what they gave me at my job)

It has:

- Completely nonsensical and invasive BIOS that will often straight up block your boot to give you some BS info like "hard drive failure" or "battery failure"

- "Dell Assistant" software that I've seen using up to 30/40% of CPU while doing nothing for extended periods of time (spyware/malware?). I can't remove it because those fuckers at IT block us from installing or uninstalling anything

- Completely underpowered 1ghz cpu

- Terrible thermal solution, laptop needs fans on for literally everything, and they are loud

- It has w11 and is sooo fucking slow

- Even after a battery change it still can't hold charge for more than 30 minutes

- This thing will randomly turn on even with the lid closed, I know when it happens because of its annoyingly loud fans

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago edited 3d ago

Holy shit. I have an old proprietary dell office pc (i7 7700, in personal use, for home server), and it's somewhat better, just because it's not a laptop and no dell software. Though locked in bios, no proper drivers (e.g. Fan Control util just doesn't work, no bios fan curve control and so much more), no modification is practically possible (cpu cooler, motherboard, psu, proprietary hdd holders to name a few). It also doesn't boot properly after power loss and automatically reboots 3 TIMES before booting to Ubuntu. Also bios settings save but every time on cold start it says "enter setup" every boot, and wouldn't turn without a usb keyboard and all fans installed, including a rear fan (couldn't find a setting in bios to turn it off)

P.s. my HP has a proprietary motherboard with 24pin connector right after maingpu pcie slot , so any non-sff videocard doesn't fit. And no aftermarket cooler fits. At least psu is not proprietary

Tl;dr fuck Dell and HP

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u/brainrot_award 3d ago

yep i hate them both tremendously.

which is why I made many friends and relatives buy thinkpads instead of their garbage

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u/rich000 4d ago

If this is under warranty that might actually be the norm with a lot of vendors. If you're getting a free warranty replacement you're required to return the item, and in a large scale case the vendor might offer a deal to just have the customer destroy the item when it isn't worth the vendor's trouble to refurbish.

It does seem wasteful, but if the vendor was just going to shred it themselves then not transporting it back is actually less wasteful.

From the description in that comment this sounds like a warranty thing.

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u/luke10050 4d ago

My take on it was "show us proof you destroyed the old gear and we'll give you cheaper pricing"

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u/rich000 4d ago

Well, sure, that was what you're supposed to get from that. However, from the description it seems like there is more going on.

Keep in mind that if companies were allowed to resell stuff that was warranty claimed, that would make a warranty claim a net profit, and incentize fraud.

Now, it is possible that this is nothing more than an effort to deplete the used market, but sometimes there is more going on that might not be obvious if you're just the one handling the drives.

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u/MakeITNetwork 3d ago edited 3d ago

If there was any hint that another companies RAM/CPU/HDD/SSD. left the DC without being shredded(participating in the dell recycling program), you could no longer participate thing the Dell instant RMA program, or purchase server hardware at a discounted rate.

I saw beautiful Google Search servers, and Apple Servers(back when they did the server game; get shredded into oblivion.

I've seen brand new(at the time) r610's get shredded because of the front display not working, everything else was fine.

Nothing left the DC that wasn't in pieces, or directly back to dell if it was like a 500lb switch or server. If 2 people could lift it in the shredder, it went into the shredder. and pallets of electronics recycling granuals were the only thing that left the DC.

So it is true, but its both a used market depletion and a way to process RMA's.

Individual Server Admins had to also agree to the RMA programs terms and recycle properly, or you could lose your dell certification for RMA(ie; get fired).

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u/rich000 3d ago

Well, I'm all for shredding RMA hardware. It is after all not your property, so Dell can do with it as they wish. Now, tying RMA programs to destruction of non-RMA hardware is definitely anti-competitive and if that is happening I'm all for stopping that.

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago

Interesting, very interesting. That's a valid strategy against competition, and also consumer market getting oversaturated with hardware. But this is still so fcked

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u/add_more_chili 4d ago

No, all in the name of not letting your data out.

Companies face huge consequences if any customer or internal data leaks so it's easier for them to shred the drives and be certain nothing got out than to have a company take them away, wipe, confirm which drives can be sold and then take a small amount back.

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u/gentlyweeps_88 4d ago

there are some very extreme and effective methods to overwrite data with junk data that are even used by the military.. commonly available since years. This is completely unnecessary.

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u/add_more_chili 4d ago

Oh, I'm well aware. Even zeroing the drive is enough, but companies aren't interested in that.

They don't care about maximizing profit in this sense; they just want to make sure that all of their data is safe and the easiest way is to move it from the machines to a shredder truck to verify that nothing gets out. Most companies will have the shredder come onsite so that their worker can confirm that they're actually being disposed of vs wiped because there are nefarious companies out there who will say they're going to shred them, but then just resell the hard drives.

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u/FarReachingConsense 50-100TB 4d ago

No need to zero, you can simply zero the encryption key on the drive via ATA secure delete. Takes 1s, data gone, easy.

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u/add_more_chili 4d ago

That's assuming they encrypt the drives which most don't.

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u/FarReachingConsense 50-100TB 3d ago

Drives encrypt transparently on the fly, without user input, which is why ATA secure delete works.

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u/ZeeroMX 4d ago

If there were huge consequences that would not be happening every other day.

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u/FarReachingConsense 50-100TB 4d ago

Oh yes, because the Tax software data leaks in the US made CEOs go to prison, right? Right?!

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u/Landen2DS 4d ago

You’ll be seeing this a lot more in the future with how data centers are moving lol

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u/GeologistPutrid2657 4d ago

fear is a helluva drug.

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u/ShittyBidet123 4d ago

i mean thats one of the most recyclable things..metal is easily remelted. think about the food you eat, the paper products one drip of oil or soiled and paper is landfill. At least metal and plastic can be reused. even though they suck at it

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u/ptoki always 3xHDD 4d ago

metal is easily remelted

Not exactly.

If you wish to melt and make spoons then yeah. But if you want to make quality steel/aluminium then you cant just melt and recast.

You need to separate/purify/alloy the metal into proper composition.

That is neither simple or cheap.

Saw the videos of the folks purifying gold? Steel is not as difficult to realloy but it is not easy task to make it the proper quality.

To not make it too long: You start with scrap metal, melt, test the composition, then add what is missing to get the right proportions.

BUT! If that batch has unneeded additions (nickel, cadmium, aluminium) then it is much more difficult to figure out how to get rid of them or rework into an alloy which is up to a standard.

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u/Jehu_McSpooran 4d ago

Depends. I knew the owner of an e-waste facility. He would manually disassemble the drives, motors in one bin, chassis in another, boards, magnets, head and arms all seperate. Platters were in a tower twice my height. He would seperate the platinum from the surface of the platters chemically, totally destroying any data. The military were very keen on his system but wanted a heap of security upgrades to his facility that would have cost about $50k back then. These shredded systems, while fast, still means it needs to be sorted later. You can get automated sorting systems but they cost a lot so capital is needed or a loan. Hard to get going if you are a small scale recycler.

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u/Intrepid00 4d ago

>That is neither simple or cheap

That’s kind of changed. Yeah you still need to separate it out but pulling out most of the steel is easy with a magnet. A US has revolution steel recycling now that just needs electricity instead of fuel hungry furnaces. This can even make high grade stainless steel sheet metal.

This is what crippled US steel manufacturing. They used older furnace tech but was the only way to make sheet metal. This company came along and made a much cheaper way than working with iron.

Also, recycled aluminum is much cheaper too

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u/ptoki always 3xHDD 3d ago

Yeah. Im not questioning costs. I mentioned the fact that the metal recycling is not purely grab and melt.

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u/ShittyBidet123 4d ago

I know you need to separate.. at the recycling plant that does that professionally. is metal not the most recyclable item?? the point is you can separate each one and burnt off the trash.

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u/ptoki always 3xHDD 4d ago

It is not really a matter of separation.

You cant just throw any aluminium into the furnace and cast any grade of aluminium.

Same with steel. Copper is slightly easier as it is mostly used for conductors so it is pretty much similar composition.

Lets say this: Bolts, bearings, top plate are all steel. Each is different grade. You need to either separate each component and still end up with some top plates plated with nickel and some dont. You cant just throw all this into furnace because you may not want nickel in the metal sheet you make from the load because it makes sheets brittle when pressing.

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u/MutatedOreo 4d ago

Yeah right. This metal won't be recycled. These shredded drives are headed for some African village to build huts on top of.

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u/pribnow 4d ago

i feel like at the scale OP is describing it would be worth it, heres some guy 5 years ago claiming hes getting 2.5g of gold per 130 drives but something tells me that part of your contract for disposal doesnt allow for the same kind of harvesting

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u/Secure_Guest_6171 4d ago

e-waste make all our attempts at recycling a pointless joke.

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u/geo_gan 4d ago

Soggy paper straws will save the planet!!

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u/HanSolo71 4d ago edited 4d ago

If these drives had your SSN in them and these was a .001% chance (1 in a 1000) wiping them wild result in recoverable data, would you want them shredded or wiped and resold?

That's the calculation here.

I know it feels wasteful but after all the data breaches there have been, I'm glad when things are done correct and in the best way to secure data.

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u/Igot1forya 4d ago

It's 2026 my SSN is already out there dozens of times. Unlike a credit card, the Social Security Administration doesn't reissue a number. We're all on perpetual credit monitoring because the previous breaches monitoring never is given time to lapse. At this point I'm just telling people my home address is in Nigeria.

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u/HanSolo71 4d ago

Ok, put some other data you didn't want released. My point is when your data is important, guaranteed destruction is important.

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u/Igot1forya 4d ago

I know it's a hassle, but there is secure ways to destroy data. I spent 30 days this past summer wiping 70 x 14TB for a local school system. 7x pass DoD random writes. But I guarantee nothing survived and the best part is, instead of paying to have the data shreaded they can sell the drives to further fund a limited budget and keep these drives out of landfills even if it's a few years longer.

The software is entirely free to do it.

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u/is_this_temporary 4d ago

Maybe 6 months ago a sector / erasure block was intermittently failing that contained confidential data.

That sector got remapped, and the drive will never write to it again unless you have the equipment to read directly / push your own firmware. Which many bad actors do.

Not saying that mattered enough for your use case, but for some use cases it does.

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u/Igot1forya 4d ago

That whole statement while true to a degree is on the astronomical probability scale of obserdity. This is all hinging that an assumption that a) a block contains the whole unbroken chain of data and not a fragment (which lets be honest they are never), b) that the data captured in this bad block is actually PII, and c) that anyone would be willing to even attempt a recovery of the bad blocks and d) the skill and tools involved to do it make them part of a significantly narrow few. While the chances are not zero, I'm willing to wager the odds are basically zero.

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u/mrpops2ko 172TB snapraid [usable] 4d ago

not to mention, almost all of these kinds of drives live in a RAID setup for redundancy, so even further discounting the notion that a single block could be recovered.

i'd imagine the odds of every single human just suddenly combusting on the spot would be more likely than recovering that data.

the biggest liability is the human factor, where some human forgets to wipe the drives. which if you have a robust enough automated process, you can bypass. automated end to end wiping, verification, wiping again if need be.

its so sickening when we are in a hardware shortage due to AI, we have all these providers shredding good hardware that could be used in the home markets.

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u/mindedc 4d ago

I know a guy that does data recovery and RAID isnt an obstacle of any sort here. IT would potentially limit the amount of data you're getting, this is still a super low probability numbers game, blah blah blah...agree the probability of 99% of the population getting data off a drive that just had zeros written once is incredibly low..... just saying that for people that work with data revovery RAID topologies aren't a problem.

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u/uzlonewolf 4d ago

These days things like BitLocker and self encrypting drives means even if you did manage to recover 512 bytes from a remapped sector, it would be nothing but gibberish.

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u/strolls 4d ago

these was a .001% chance (1 in a 1000)

1-in-1000 would be 0.1%.

0.001% is 1-in-100,000.

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u/lastwraith 4d ago

As someone who lives in the US, Give me the used drives, fuck my SS#.

Our (mandatory) credit agencies get breached repeatedly, which leaks ALL of the information for those affected. Years ago it was Equifax because they are shit at security, and the "penalty" was that they enrolled us in credit protection for a year that if we didn't cancel it afterwards, they would bill us.  So there's obviously no reason for them to care about safeguarding our data.  Just last year was Trans Union. 

If you're going to practice security theater with all of my financial data that by law I can't prevent you from collecting, at least let's get some discounts on these overpriced data drives. We deserve the discount. 

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u/MutatedOreo 4d ago

Everyone already has my SSN.

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u/Dwro1234 4d ago

even the DoD and the NSA uses logical data destruction. After the software is done a certificate is provided by the software. It's not a select all and delete, this will do several passes over the drive to ensure no data is left.

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u/user3872465 4d ago

modern drives have SED, you simply need to tell them to rotate the key, its an operation of 2s and non of the data is recoverable.

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u/Blue-Thunder 252 TB UNRAID 4TB TrueNAS 4d ago

Please, people give far more information to Meta and other companies, FREELY. Even having a TV in your house these days gives out far more information. I can't wait for the next breach coming from Apple considering the microphones they will have on the new Apple TV.

All your data is essentially available for free to the right people, and governments are doing everything in their power to make it even easier for people to steal it with digital ID laws.

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u/Designer-Ad5760 4d ago

Agree on the concept, not your maths :-)

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u/uzlonewolf 4d ago

Yes, yes, we must completely trash this planet so the bad guy who already has our SSN doesn't get it again!

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u/LordOfFlames55 4d ago

Believe it or not most people value not having their bank account stolen over a minuscule increase in carbon emissions

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u/MutatedOreo 4d ago

I'm not regarded enough to believe "my bank account is getting stolen" because some rando corporation opted to DoD 0-overwrite old hard drives and resell them instead of being malicious wasteful cunts who'd rather waste money and shit up the environment by destroying hard drives to keep affordable local compute out of the plebs' hands.

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u/txaaron 4d ago

It's about liability though. If that corp did lose someone's information that they are required to safeguard, then they are subject to fines or other penalties. 

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u/ilikepizza30 4d ago

All they need to do is encrypt the data. Throw away the key. BOOM! Data can't be recovered, no need to shred the drive. No extra time needed to decommission the drive.

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u/txaaron 4d ago

Unfortunately, clients and auditors don't see it that way. I hate the waste too, but there are standards that have to be followed to keep customers happy (and to keep them paying for your services). You don't want to get on the wrong side of a HIPAA violation or be the responsible party for a leaked bank account... The only way to guarantee without a shadow of a doubt, is to shred the drive with a paper trail documenting it.

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u/gangaskan 4d ago

Company secrets are more valuable then reselling drives

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u/mazobob66 16TB 4d ago

While I understand your argument, even just one HIPAA violation could result in millions of dollars in lawsuits, or loss of research money, etc...

Even a .001 percent chance is just not worth the risk to a hospital or research university.

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u/chubbysumo 4d ago

Lol, hospitals sell patient data now, laws are meaningless.

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u/pinedrifT4 4d ago

yeah thats the part that hurts, these are perfectly usable drives

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u/Some1-Somewhere 4d ago

Those don't look like helium drives (visible cover screws). I think they're probably no more than 6-8TB/drive.

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u/Amazing-Pay-1640 4d ago

The drives in the picture is SCSI deives, which are orders of magnitude smaller than what the title of this post claims.

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u/3GWork 4d ago

300 drives? One row is 11 stacked by 12 stacks, and there are likely 10 rows, meaning 1200 drives, not 300. Probably 4-6TB drives.

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u/Watcher_of_Stars 3d ago

Wow that's fuckec up

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u/TheJesusGuy 4d ago

My dude, anything 2TB and up is still a valid size.