A couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying
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Nibodhika@lemmy.world 15 hours agoThat’s overkill, a couple of passes with dd and it’s irrecoverable.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 14 hours ago
I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are recyclable.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
They’re recyclable snipped.
toddestan@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
More like they become reusable. A lot of places that refurbish donated computers for people who need them are perpetually short on drives since so much of the hardware they get have the drives pulled.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah lmao. Wipe one drive at a time with a USB connector. No thanks. I don’t have bulk drive operation equipment and then it ties up a computer doing the work.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Wait, you don’t just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
9bananas@feddit.org 20 minutes ago
saw a setup like that at work, until it was determined to be a fire hazard. which it was.
had to short the start pins of the MoBa with a paperclip to start the damn thing.
we called it “the scorpion”, cause it would shock you if you touched it wrong, and it kinda looked like a scorpion with the cables hanging out all over the floor…
#tales-from-IT
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Mine, sure. I replaced 15 desktops that day, no fucking way.
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cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I think bolt cutters are faster though
bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
And significantly more power efficient
voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
But more wasteful
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
They’re 500gb mechanical hard drives with financial data on them. Snip and done. No time wasted, not reusing them.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 minutes ago
What’s dd?