The good thing about large businesses is that they don’t typically throw hardware in the garbage, especially drives. They’ll most likely either sell the wiped drives to a recycler/refurbisher, or donate them to a charity that does the same for the tax write-off.
This is one of the rare instances where being profit driven is helpful.
I worked in the surplus warehouse for a university, and all of their computer equipment went to a local prison with a program that has inmates refurbish them and gives them to schools in low income areas. The stuff that can’t be refurbished gets recycled.
That might be a silver lining, but I also see a high possibility of companies just throwing everything onto a big pile of garbage or shipping it to fuck knows where instead of dealing with the hassle of reselling their no longer needed assets.
Just thinking about all the electronic waste this is gonna generate is making me feel all icky
The good thing about large businesses is that they don’t typically throw hardware in the garbage, especially drives. They’ll most likely either sell the wiped drives to a recycler/refurbisher, or donate them to a charity that does the same for the tax write-off.
This is one of the rare instances where being profit driven is helpful.
I worked in the surplus warehouse for a university, and all of their computer equipment went to a local prison with a program that has inmates refurbish them and gives them to schools in low income areas. The stuff that can’t be refurbished gets recycled.
Now may not be a good time to tell you about the Windows 10 EoL that recently lapsed, then.
Think about all the HDDs that they will sell for cheap in 5 years.
I’m not really ever in the market for drives with forty thousand power on hours, are you?
I am no expert. What wears the drive down? Depending on the workloads the drives could be ok.
That might be a silver lining, but I also see a high possibility of companies just throwing everything onto a big pile of garbage or shipping it to fuck knows where instead of dealing with the hassle of reselling their no longer needed assets.
Will they even by allowed by the contracts to resell them?