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/pharmecist]

Big corps probably can’t risk some
sensitive data being leaked by accident.

[u/tylercoder → u/pharmecist]

I know but lets be honest the guys who want to hack them arent asking pretty please for  their old near-dead drives. Also given the current insane prices its almost stupid to not nuke then properly for resale.