[CentOS] CentOS 6.9, shredding a RAID

Wed May 31 20:56:13 UTC 2017
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/31/2017 12:46 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Not dealing with "secret", dealing with HIPAA and PII data. And*sigh*
>> Homeland Security Theater dictates....
>
> We run all used disks through a shredder before surplusing any systems,
> and we are just a manufacturing company dealing with internal corporate
> IT stuff.     the shredder is a truck from a 'data destruction' service
> that comes every so often and destroys the current inventory of surplus
> disks.  A corporate eSecurity officer witnesses this to ensure drives
> aren't diverted into the grey market.  each drive goes into the shredder
> and comes out as metal filings.
>
The alternative is to wait for my manager to return, and then have the
drives deGaussed.

Oh... and I just looked, ahh, yeah, I think something's going on... given
that it's not 12 days, but that I started it on 11 May....

      mark