News ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from The Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest su...

[Admin]

The Alpine storage system, a high-performance storage array for the world's 9th fastest supercomputer, has shredded all of its drives by ORNL in preparation for its replacement, Alpine2, which will power Summit until November.

ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from The Summit supercomputer — Alpine storage system dismantled in preparation for the world's fastest su... : Read more

 

[Steve Nord_]

If you don't hold your own ep. 2 of Mr. Robot, your backups don't work.

 

[kanewolf]

Before I retired, I worked with large disk intensive systems. We had need for disk destruction, on-site. One vendor we investigated, guaranteed that anything smaller than a VW Bug, that we threw into the shredder would end up no bigger than 1/8 or an inch ...

 

[das_stig]

but can it run Windows 11 with TPM2? No? Scrap it on orders of Microsoft