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Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse
submitted 1 year ago by [deleted] from arstechnica.com
[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (1 child)
Shredding them is a lot faster than wiping them and 100% guaranteed to destroy the data.
[–]RamblingOtter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - 1 year ago (0 children)
This pretty much.
As for refurbishment for secondary markets, all these devices have built in obsolescence. The idea that a computer built today will still be running in 20 years time is a nonsense. They are just not built like that anymore.
[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun - (1 child)
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