Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

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[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (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 - 1 fun -  (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.