The advantages of working for a small company... the sysadmin is a long-time employee who's just moved into that role, he and I are good buddies. And there's not anything worth $$$ data recovery on them anyway.
I hate seeing perfectly good working equipment reduced to low-value scrap, so I'm wiping these drives at home on my own time to prevent that.
Yep! I've watched thousand(s) of pounds of working hard drives get shredded.
I have a hook-up to get some older drives from another company (1.5TB, etc) and well... let's just say that "newer" used disks with 4 years on them aren't very reliable. I'd imaigne the older ones hold up much better since they were more expensive and less density.
-- : Ethan O'Toole
