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

rainer at ultra-secure.de rainer at ultra-secure.de
Wed May 9 11:14:18 UTC 2018


Am 2018-05-09 13:00, schrieb Leon Fauster:
>> 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 
> ...?


Lot's of specialized companies in that field.

Some of our customers require a protocol of destruction for disks, with 
serial numbers.





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