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A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center

Posted by timothy on from the live-from-coast-zero dept.

miller60 writes "Google today released a video showcasing the security and data protection practices in its data centers. Filmed at the company's South Carolina data center, it provides a look at Google's wiping of data and (literal) shredding of hard drives."

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  1. Hard drives need upgraded by drmacinyasha · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did anyone else notice in the video at 00:53 that the guy is assembling the server... With an IDE hard drive?

  2. Re:Shredding hard drives is a pointless waste. by Animats · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google probably shreds them so that they don't get bought by some low-rent operator and show up in "new" machines.

    They're low-end drives, incidentally. Google uses cheap parts and redundancy, accepting that hardware will fail regularly. I'm surprised they even bother to test failed drives.