Thanks for the reply, John. With this solution, aren't you concerned that something relevant could appear in one of those 8k chunks that WAFL writes? Several credit card or social security numbers might be strung in there.
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-----Original Message----- From: John Stoffel [mailto:john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 10:36 AM To: Ted Weston Cc: 'Toasters' Subject: Re: Destroying failed disks
Ted> Good Morning (or afternoon/evening, depending on your location) - Ted> I'd like to conduct a quick poll on the process those of you Ted> employ to destroy failed filer hard drives. Do you use an outside Ted> service to physically destroy it, utilize something akin to Ted> 'shred -z,' or an entirely different approach?
Well, since the failed disks are shipped back to NetApp under our maint contract, we don't do anything to them. And since they're dead... all we could do is physically destroy them if we were worried about data being stolen. Not a big worry since all you'd get is snippets in random chunks, esp for bigger files.
John John Stoffel - Senior Staff Systems Administrator - System LSI Group Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. - http://www.toshiba.com/taec john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com - 508-486-1087