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Personal Computing: The End of The Parallel Interface

By On December 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Featured, Storage

This is the time of year I like to do a little early spring cleaning and one group of storage devices due a clean out are my old hard drives.

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Recycling Drives – Update

By On July 23, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

Last week I posted about wasted hard drives, removed from arrays and crushed to prevent the leak of sensitive data.

I contacted HGST and Seagate to get some additional background. Here are their responses, slightly edited to correct any spelling mistakes but otherwise intact.

Seagate

(a) when will the technology be [...]

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Destroying hard drives, what a waste

By On July 16, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

Many financial and government organisations choose to destroy the hard drives that are declared as failing and removed from their arrays. They use products like this which make the hard drive unusable.

What happens to these hard drives? I presume they just end up in landfill and aren’t recycled. Is it beyond the [...]

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