[Beowulf] Data Destruction

[Jan Wender]

One of our customers is giving the disks to the on-site firefighters to be used in training exercises 🔥🙂

On 30. September 2021 at 09:51:40, John Hearns (hearnsj at gmail.com(mailto:hearnsj at gmail.com)) wrote:

> I once had an RMA case for a failed tape with Spectralogic. To prove it was destroyed and not re-used I asked the workshop guys to put it through a bandsaw, then sent off the pictures.
>  
> On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 16:47, Ellis Wilson <ellis at ellisv3.com(mailto:ellis at ellisv3.com)> wrote:
> > On 9/29/21 11:41 AM, Jörg Saßmannshausen wrote:
> > > If you still need more, don't store the data at all but print it out on paper
> > > and destroy it by means of incineration. :D
> >  
> > I have heard stories from past colleagues of one large US Lab putting
> > their HDDs through wood chippers with magnets on the chipped side to
> > kill the bits good and dead. As a storage fanatic that always struck me
> > as something I'd have loved to see.
> >  
> > Best,
> >  
> > ellis
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