[CentOS] OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

Wed May 9 14:32:22 UTC 2018
Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs <pete at 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 at gmail.com>:
>>> >
>>> > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34,  <m.roth at 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 ...?
>>>
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE8kwu3dm3o
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqW4djlQUoE
>>
>
> 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.
>

      Depending on your location, have you considered volcano? =)

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