Toshiba's New HDDs Destroy Data Automatically

[darkguset]

[citation][nom]JimmiG[/nom]You can't just "take out the platters", the only data you would be able to extract would be in encrypted form, which is useless without the key.[/citation]

True, but now you have all the time in the world to try and crack the code, or find the key, without the data being deleted after the first attempt.

 

[RabidFace]

[citation][nom]pirateboy[/nom]"Toshiba said that the drives are designed for use in PCs, printers, POS systems"lol @ pos systems[/citation]

Been in the industry for too long 😉 But it means Point of Service. Just about all registers in fast-food, etc., is a POS system. And that includes a program called POS, that is just about on all registers. There are independent and other POS programs out there.

But yes, I do think the same thing as well when I see POS before logging in to take someones order 😉

 

[cadder]

And here I thought it was only Seagate drives that were designed to delete their own data.

 

[Benihana]

Sweet, I could then "borrow" my friends' hdds and simply turn them on in my system to quickly wipe his drives clean.

 

[web11]

The solution for the platter extraction is simple. Toshiba needs to make the drive self destruct/explode when open lol.