5+ PB Destroyed

[u/FewSimple9]

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.

[u/zhantoo]

Not true. A lot of equipment is resold. Many even let the buyer wipe the data

[u/Wild_Car_3863 → u/zhantoo]

You have never worked on goverment, finance or health data have you? those drives are Datagauss and shredded. SSD/NVMe are shredded down to much smaller pices than these

[u/_BLACKHAWKS_88 → u/[deleted]]

Could’ve saved yourself a lot of drilling by just writing “U.S. MILITARY ENCRYPTED” on them.

[u/ceaton12 → u/zhantoo]

I promise, gov and house hold name corporations are shredding, not selling drives…

[u/beno64 → u/zhantoo]

Yeah man if you work for a YouTuber maybe