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GPUs yes, but there'll be no HDDs making it alive, they'll get destroyed to protect whatever rubbish they had on.
by Nux 10mo ago
GPUs yes, but there'll be no HDDs making it alive, they'll get destroyed to protect whatever rubbish they had on.
- HugoTea 10mo agoDepends how it goes down, if a company goes into insolvency all security policies are off the table and random hardware can get shifted into lot bidding.
- pmontra 10mo agoHDD can be written multiple times with random data if data centers really have to protect what their former customers wrote on them. I never looked at those details in standard contracts. There is also encryption at rest.
- teeray 10mo ago> HDD can be written multiple times with random data Which costs more in compute than simply throwing the drive in a shredder
- walterbell 10mo agoWhat's the disposal method for shredded drives?
- faeyanpiraat 10mo agoMount Doom
- rwyinuse 10mo agoNot really, if we give the HDD some resale value. There's a market for used but functional hard drives.
- tencentshill 10mo agoThey have enough investor money they don't need to recoup it selling used drives. Straight to the shredder.
- jimwalsh 10mo agoAll the large datacenter/cloud companies do not let hard drives leave the building.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoAll you really need to do is write one pass of zeros on them. That will prevent anyone but a very dedicated adversary with expensive equipment from recovering any data, especially on TB scale drives. Can still take hours per drive though, which is why a lot of people skip it.
- edoceo 10mo agoI make a random 1MB chunk, then write that all over the drive, at overlapping offsets. I've been told that really clears it. On IDE-spinning-rust disks I trusted it, not sure if I should trust these modern SSD
- p1mrx 10mo agoWhy rewrite the same 1MB chunk, instead of making new random chunks? Redundant data at least opens the possibility that the drive could deduplicate.
- edoceo 10mo agoCause making new random was taking too much time.
- throwawaymobule 10mo agoPretty sure most modern computers can generate random data faster than they can write to a disc.
- krior 10mo agoOr encrypt it and just trash the encryption header.
- PeaceTed 10mo agoWhen I used to do computer refurbishment, 'Boot and Nuke' was great for this. Load it up at boot, and write over the with random junk a few times.
- ComputerGuru 10mo agoI wrote hddrand to write random data and optionally read it back to verify integrity. https://github.com/mqudsi/hddrand https://github.com/mqudsi/hddrand
- archagon 10mo agoI believe many enterprise drives have instant-erase functionality (presumably deleting an encryption key).
- SoftTalker 10mo agoIf they were encrypted to begin with, yes. Many are not.
- archagon 10mo agoI was under the impression that these drives may be transparently encrypted by default. (Rollable encryption key in hardware, invisible to end-user.)
- mgerdts 10mo agoA drive that supports Secure Instant Erase should be encrypting all data. When the SEI function is invoked (“nvme format -s 2”, “hdparm —-security-erase”) they key is thrown away and replaced with a new one. Similar implementations exist for NVMe, SATA, and SAS drives — regardless of whether they are HDD or SSD. This puts a fair amount of trust and in the drive’s ability to really delete the old key.
- bigbuppo 10mo agoNah, the liquidators aren't going to care about that. Those hard drives are going to be shipped out with all your wildest porn chat bot fantasies.
- maerF0x0 10mo ago"Shredded onsite" means by the next user when they format the drive and write contents to it /s
- downrightmike 10mo agonew HDD have a SHA key built in that can be erased without zeroing out the drive. it just creates a new key and boom, free disk