Resources
Organizational
Data Sanitization Best Practices Guide
Videos
CDI YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CircularDriveInitiative
Presentations
Circularity in Storage: CDI Update for 2025 by J. Hands, presented at FMS 2025
Circular Economy for Storage by J. Hands, Presented at FMS 2024
IEEE 2883 Training Slides May 2024
Studies and Research
Advancing Data Security and Sustainability: Establishing a Circular Economy for Storage
Article written by Tom Coughlin and Jonmichael Hands published in IEEE Computer (Volume: 58, Issue: 3, March 2025)
Data Explosion, Circular Solution: How Refurbished Drives Can Bridge the Storage Supply Gap
Academic paper written by Richard Kenny and Jonmichael Hands, published in the European Journal of Business and Management Research (Vol. 9, No. 6 2024).
Incentivizing Circular Economy Reuse of Data Storage Drives A Comparison of GHG Allocation Methodologies to Inform a New Industry Standard
White paper written by Seagate, published July 24, 2024
New IEEE Media Sanitization Specification Enables Circular Economy for Storage
Paper by Thomas Coughlin and Jonmichael Hands for IEEE Computer (Vol. 56, Issue 1, 2023)
White Paper: Sustainability as the Fifth Tenet White Paper written by Jonmichael Hands, Jordan Tse, Alex Rakow and Tiffany Jin; published by OCP Sustainability. (2023)
Data Sanitization for the Circular Economy (OCP)
White paper published at OCP July 2022