Destroying data can be as important as creating it
How much time do you spend talking with your customers about what to do with their solutions when they are done with them? Maybe you should rethink your priorities.
According to Seagate, 50,000 enterprise drives are retired every year. In this age of highly proprietary business data and hyper-sensitive customer records, destroying information can be as important as creating it. How do businesses guarantee that data is completely removed from retired servers and storage – and PCs ?
Seagate, IBM and LSI have taken a step towards making this incredibly simple and inexpensive. With Seagate’s Cheetah 15K.6 FDE drive, available this summer, data can be made to disappear forever from retired server and storage drives with a single command.
This technology already exists for notebook PCs. In all cases, make sure proper password management procedures are in place before implementing these drives. Once the key is lost or erased, the data is gone forever.
More from Seagate on secure storage here.
Anyone out there using FDE in notebooks today? How is it working for you?
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When I retire my personal drives at home I use a hammer. Too many scary stories of people pulling bank records, etc off of old drives.