Comment by SoftTalker
3 months ago
> drive I bought on Amazon was actually a used Backblaze drive
Assuming this is true, I find it weird/surprising that Backblaze doesn't at least zero their drives before disposing of them? I have to do that at my work, and at least by policy I could lose my job if I skipped doing it.
I find it more weird that they don't use encrypted storage, then you don't nee to bother with zeroing drives. You only need to 'forget' the key.
I find it weird they are allowed to do anything but destroy end-of-life HDDs
If our legal team finds out about this, we are never going to be allowed to use Backblaze lol.
Seems like the only responsible thing to do is tell them and then stop using Backblaze. Seems to me they can't be trusted.
I work in the refurb division of an ewaste recycling company. I'm pretty sure I would be fired if I didn't wipe a drive before selling it, too. We got certifications that we NEED to keep in order to keep doing business.
But you don’t work at backblaze :)