On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:46:30AM -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs pete@biggs.org.uk wrote:
On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote:
Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com:
On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD?
SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple sectors many times to 'even the writes'. This allows for even a 'dead' disk to be disassembled with 'off-the-shelf' equipment to extract items from the dead places. Depending on the data involved, there may be different levels of shredding and destruction of shreds required.
What would someone use to do this? An industrial blender, circular saw ...?
Yes. Depending on the data type, the 'dust' at the other end may need to be ground through another machine so that all parts are less than some specified size ( I think it was below 0.5 cm x 0.5 cm x0.5cm.) Then again depending on the data type, those bits are poured into concrete or taken to a specialized chemical incinerator.
Makes sense. I was thinking that some of the flash chips in the SSD could have survived that machine and would need to be further processed for some certainty of security.