Re: Depreciate and remove gbde

From: Felix Kronlage <fkr_at_hazardous.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 17:12:01 +0100
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 12:06 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg_at_funkthat.com> wrote:
>> The thing I like most about encryption is that when I RMA a bad
>> drive, I don't have to worry about my data leaking if I am unable
>> to overwrite all the data...
> You are optimistic if you believe that.  We ($WORK) factor the cost of DOA/warranty drives into our operational budget.  They never get RMAed.  We drill them when they die.

Can only second that. One of the reasons why we work with hardware
vendors that offer Keep-your-drive warranty. That way, we get to keep
the broken drive and still get them RMA'ed. Can definitly recommend that ;)


felix
Received on Tue Oct 27 2015 - 15:12:25 UTC

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