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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. Re:Shredding hard drives is a pointless waste. by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, sure. Google will just invent a hard-drive disassembling, sorting, and recycling robot. Are you fucking nuts? What's next, Google will just invent some self-driving robot car?!

  2. Re:Shredding hard drives is a pointless waste. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A very, very common failure mode for a hard drive is that it continues working until either the electronics or the mechanics of the drive fails. At this point, it's too late to zero it out.

    Now that it has failed, how does one erase it? Well, one can either try to put the platters in a new enclosure with fresh mechanics and fresh electronics...

    or one can destroy it.

    Guess which one is cheaper. :-)