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Comment by jacquesm

3 months ago

Backblaze should get ironclad guarantees that decomissioned drives have been destroyed, besides that their storage system should not be storing anything in plaintext at all.

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nullocator  3 months ago

This seems like it would create a lot of e-waste, as long as the data is guaranteed unrecoverable in entirety or in part it should be okay no?

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