[Wolves] OFT : anyone got a spare server rack mounted

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

They are being drilled now about 150 a day paying the donkeys £30 cash in
hand no English foreign illegals..

I pay £1 a drive but a least 50% are dead... just wondering if plugging
them into a server would speed the process up n help everyone n stop such
harmful metals into the environment.   Mate team drill holes n sells them
for 25p each hdd.. just such a nasty business n so many middle men..


On Sat, 3 Jun 2023, 14:36 Andy Smith via Wolves, <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> On Sat, Jun 03, 2023 at 11:28:16AM +0100, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint
> via Wolves wrote:
> > Can I install linux on this..
> >
> >
> https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125951341053?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=d4IVRfruQeC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=wO7DrueFTsK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=FB_MSG
> >
> > HP DL360 Gen9 Xeon E5-2620 v4 2.1Ghz 32Gb RAM 2x 146Gb 3x 900Gb SERVER
>
> Yes.
>
> > N get it too format all the drives with d b a n one at time or two at
> time?
>
> DBAN will do as many drives as you can connect, in parallel.
>
> It's overkill, however, and therefore slow. Just boot any Linux live
> environment and dd over the disks with zeroes. There is not a data
> recovery firm in the world who will promise to get usable data back
> after even one write pass.
>
> Your biggest problem is likely to be drives that are too broken to
> work in the machine. They'll be too broken for you to wipe them, but
> you won't be confident that they are too broken for someone to fix
> them and then get the data off. You might need to send them off for
> physical destruction (or have them come to you).
>
> If we're talking 5 HDDs then you can have a good time with a lump
> hammer yourself. If we're talking 50+, maybe you want to pay £10
> each to have someone throw them in an industrial shredder. 😀
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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