A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center 89
miller60 writes "Google today released a video showcasing the security and data protection practices in its data centers. Filmed at the company's South Carolina data center, it provides a look at Google's wiping of data and (literal) shredding of hard drives."
Hard drives need upgraded (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Shredding hard drives is a pointless waste. (Score:3, Interesting)
Google probably shreds them so that they don't get bought by some low-rent operator and show up in "new" machines.
They're low-end drives, incidentally. Google uses cheap parts and redundancy, accepting that hardware will fail regularly. I'm surprised they even bother to test failed drives.