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Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by abraae on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:37PM (#40877463)
Some orgs crush entire computers, so crushing just the drives is at least better than that.
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Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by greenyies on Thursday July 04, 2024 @03:47PM (#40877532)
Never heard or seen this.

Who? And why?

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Re:Hard drive, SSD puncher of physical media with 12 tons of... by pixl97 on Thursday July 04, 2024 @07:17PM (#40878796)
Because it's very very hard to ensure modern computers dont have storage integrated into some unexpected part. UEFI on board can have a pretty significant amount of storage. All kinds of other devices can have storage in them too. Rather than ensure everything has been erased, they grind up the whole thing.
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