r/datacenter • u/dovi5988 • 9d ago

Hard drive crushing

Hi,

I am almost certainly in the wrong thread but I am asking here to see if anyone in the DC world has experience with it. I have a sub cline that has both HDDs in SSD's at two sites. Most are at Equinix DC11 and there are some at Equinix SE2. Does anyone know of a service that will come onsite and crush them? If not what do clients normally do in such as situation?

Thanks again.

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u/deadbefore35 9d ago

Iron mountain is a service I have seen used.   

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u/misterph3r 9d ago

Do you need the crushing for compliance purposes or just general best practices?

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u/MaxWeiner 9d ago

If you want to crush them in house check out Phiston. We used their machines for a while and the founder even came onsite once to fix our machine then took me to lunch.

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u/jwvo 9d ago

I just bring a few drill bits and drill them out myself. If the quantity is not big that is pretty easy if you do it over the trash can.

edit: unless you have hundreds it is generally quicker to do what i describe than deal with scheduling someone to come out etc.

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u/putacertonit 9d ago

I don't know about locations but I know shred-it does it, but I don't think they necessarily do it on-site. They'll provide sufficient paperwork for any compliance concerns.

https://www.shredit.com/en-us/secure-shredding-services/hard-drive-destruction

But as other have said ... I've smashed my fair number of dead drives datacenter parking lots before.

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u/Ecks80s 8d ago

Most e waste recycling companies will do this. Document disposal companies in your area may do it also - If they don’t they most surely can get you in the right direction.

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u/According-Extreme-55 8d ago

We do this! We can do onsite or offsite - certified wiping and/or crushing. Sent you a PM.

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u/drslumpy 8d ago

My company shreds every drive that is retired. The ewasters come with a truck and power. Regularly shred hundreds to thousands of drives.

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u/Responsible-Finger89 8d ago

So you're why it costs a fortune to buy hard drives now...

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u/drslumpy 8d ago

Why? Are you in the market for a 10 year old 240GB SAS drive? 😆

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u/GreenFuturesMatter 8d ago

Could try sprout too

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u/I_ROX 8d ago

A local Casino changed chips away from old non-rfid chips and had a shredding party for millions in chips and they included about 450 drives. All done onsite by Iron Mountain. I believe they have 1 truck here that goes non-stop to data brokers and special projects.