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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by rbanffy on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:16AM (#26979696)
If the data on the drive is encrypted, there’s no need to shred decommissioned drives.
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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by skybrian on Friday April 30, 2021 @01:45AM (#26990160)
True, but some companies are extra careful. Or were anyway, back when I got a tour.
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Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space by rbanffy on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:58AM (#26991893)
True. You can hold the drive for a couple decades and then decrypt it with your shiny new MacBook based on the newly released Q1 quantum processors. ;-)
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