Re: Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound harddrives??

["Basgen, Brian" <bbasgen () PIMA EDU>]

 The primary concern we had was consistency and process assurance such that the thousands of drives we handle every 
year were properly "destroyed". The basic premise we had going with a hard drive crusher was the idea that there is a 
greater likelihood of error when running a software based process than a hardware one. For example, given the problem 
of having to wipe 60 computers in a week, a technician will remove and crush the drives, and at the end do a simple 
audit of spindles to ensure we have 60. While a similar process is possible with other methods, I think the audit 
process would be more difficult and error prone. 

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Brian Basgen
Information Security Office
Pima Community College
Office: 520-206-4873
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Valdis Kletnieks
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:36 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Quick Survey: How do you "dispose" of outbound
> harddrives??
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:18:08 -0000, Michael Schalip said:
> > Still sounds much more cost effective to apply the Sledg-O-Matic (or Drill-
> O-Matic) and move on....
>
> Unless you're planning to sell the boxes at surplus auction, where a system
> with a known-working disk drive (because DBAN just ran across every block)
> is worth a lot more than a system that's got a hole where the disk drive used
> to be.  And turning on the box and booting DBAN is usually faster than all the
> work needed to crack the case, pull the drive, and find the implements of
> destruction.
>
> Remember, you can just walk away while it's running and check back later.