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

Wed May 9 11:18:51 UTC 2018
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqW4djlQUoE

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