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.
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JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoA couple of passed with dd takes way longer than bolt cutters and it’s much less satisfying
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait, you don’t just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Mine, sure. I replaced 15 desktops that day, no fucking way.
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9bananas@feddit.org 2 weeks 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…
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tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I think they meant you could wipe with dd and then they are recyclable.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re recyclable snipped.
toddestan@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
SSDs are cheap enough, no sense in using a 10 year old mechanical drive to save $30.