Computer Data & Hard Drive Destruction

Computer data and hard drive destruction and recycling

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Computer
• Data
• Destruction
• Recycling
• Hard
• drive
• shredding
• Recycle
• Electronics
• metal
• identity
• theft
• prevention
• Earth
• Day

[GertStegeman]

What do you do for a living?

I operate the #Broom# at eAtComputers128.

It's 2010 now, we are in the middle of a financial crisis.

My opinion:

Fire this guy and hire a mechanic for 1 day to fix the conveyor!

[dewalt23293]

wonder how many workers steal info from the computers

[fgc2001]

its better because you can save your files one by one

XD

[mima14031985]

@OberstHulmbug Yes this it's quite stupid, considering that data can be safely erased from the media with a degausser or some other equipment which emits a strong EMF, with the very same result, minus the material waste, as the equipments after the data erasing can be properly disassembled and recycled. But you told it, money counts more than the planet where we live. Sad...

[mima14031985]

@OberstHulmbug Yes this it's quite stupid, considering that data can be safely erased from the media with a degausser or some other equipment which emits a strong EMF, with the very same result, minus the material waste, as the equipments after the data erasing can be properly disassembled and recycled. But you told it, money counts more than the planet where we live. Sad...

[johnknoefler]

@OberstHulmbug and it seems stupid to destroy the whole in a shredder since the hard drive can be destroyes so easily.

[OberstHulmbug]

@OberstHulmbug: "metals" (sry)

[OberstHulmbug]

@OberstHulmbug: "metals" (sry)

[OberstHulmbug]

@mima14031985: I would also hope they did something more clever than just burning it up/melting the metlas. However, without even checking the specifics, I would assume that many (if not most) of the various materials would burn/oxidize/deteriorate beyond usefulness long before the metals start to melt. So it is most probably just a waste, the point being total and permanent data loss rather than recycling. Man is evil and there are too few quick economic incentives for saving the environment.

[mima14031985]

@johnknoefler This is a thing that no all people understand. Often I find (and pick up) at the recycling center perfectly working and often QUALITY equipments (computers, audio amplifiers, old energy saving lamps, etc...) thrown away only because they're a bit old and/or don't reach the "modern requirements" in design (in this case especially audio amplifiers and stereo equipments, even if they are quality equipments). It's a shame!

[mima14031985]

@OberstHulmbug I think they extract every single material by warming the whole mass of plastics/metals/silicon to reach the melting point of the various substances, and extracting the element whith liquifies at a given moment while going up with temperature. Or at least I hope they do this (or in a similar way), without simply burning and reducing to ashes all the things together. Otherwise yes, this would be a big waste.