Dan Hyatt wrote:
>I worked in the SSD lab at STEC for a while, testing SSD's and fixing
> SSD's that failed...
> I knew how to blow up the drives, run them well beyond the capacity of
> spinner drives. But then I would flash the firmware and the drive would
> be good as new. I would be runnin
I worked in the SSD lab at STEC for a while, testing SSD's and fixing
SSD's that failed...
When I was working in the lab on the Zuess drives (First enterprise
class SSD drive) . When the drives came back from our customers hosed,
all we had to do was re-flash the firmware (helps if you have
--On Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:35:26 AM -0400 "James B. Byrne"
wrote:
> I have a question about SSD respecting security. [...]
> I have come to the rather
> unsettling conclusion that it is effectively impossible to 'sanitize'
> these things short of complete and utter physical destruction, pr
James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Thu Jun 12 17:21:43 UTC 2014, John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
> wrote:
>
>> On 6/12/2014 10:12 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> We use two methods: for the drives that are totally dead, or*sigh* the
>>> SCSI drives, they get deGaussed. For SATA that's still runnin
On Thu Jun 12 17:21:43 UTC 2014, John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com wrote:
> On 6/12/2014 10:12 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> We use two methods: for the drives that are totally dead, or*sigh* the
>> SCSI drives, they get deGaussed. For SATA that's still running, we use
>> DBAN.*Great* s
On 6/12/2014 10:12 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> We use two methods: for the drives that are totally dead, or*sigh* the
> SCSI drives, they get deGaussed. For SATA that's still running, we use
> DBAN.*Great* software. From what I've read, one pass would probably be
> good enough, given how data's
SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM, James B. Byrne
> wrote:
>> On Wed, June 11, 2014 18:31, Frank Cox wrote:
>> I have a question about SSD respecting security. Recently I have been
>> investigating sanitizing these devices, together with 'smart-phones,
>> tablets and pads wh
On 6/12/2014 9:38 AM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> A former employer of mine contracts out destruction of conventional hard
> drives with a machine that has a hydraulic arm and a wedge. Effectively
> bending the platters and some of the drive. Hardware destruction (prior to
> recycling/disposal) in cert
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:35 AM, James B. Byrne
wrote:
>
> On Wed, June 11, 2014 18:31, Frank Cox wrote:
> > I decided that the next time I reformatted my main desktop computer
> (this one)
> > I would have a ssd installed in it to use for the boot drive. Now that
> Centos
> > 7 is on the horiz
On Wed, June 11, 2014 18:31, Frank Cox wrote:
> I decided that the next time I reformatted my main desktop computer (this one)
> I would have a ssd installed in it to use for the boot drive. Now that Centos
> 7 is on the horizon, I'm thinking that the time is approaching when I'll want
> to do th
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