Google crushes, shreds old hard drives to prevent data leakage

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Posted 27 April 2011 - 12:33 AM

Google is shedding some of the secrecy around its data center practices, with a new video that shows extensive security measures and the destruction of old hard drives to prevent leakage of customer data.

Google "rigorously tracks the location and status" of each hard drive, destroying failed hard drives with a multistep process before gathering the mangled bits in boxes to send off to recycling centers...

Google is shredding...