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Advancing Data Security and Sustainability: Establishing a Circular Economy for Storage

February 20, 2025

Recent extensions in the IEEE Standard 2883.1-2024 and initiatives by the OCP and the CHIPS Alliance enable a circular economy for digital storage devices. New storage disassembly equipment facilitates recovering useful materials from end-of-life storage devices.

E-Waste Day 2024 – AI adds fuel to fire as e-waste crisis continues

October 14, 2024

AI is a major contributor to e-waste mountains that continue to grow exponentially. So, to mark International E-Waste Day today (14 October), we explore what organizations can do about this major environmental challenge.

Developments In Sustainable Storage Technology At The 2024 SDC

September 26, 2024

At the 2024 Storage Developers Conference (SDC) put on by storage trade group, SNIA, there were several sessions with updates on developments in more sustainable digital storage systems.

How HDD Industry and Seagate Are Reinventing Sustainability?

August 12, 2024

The storage industry has supplied billions of terabytes of HDD capacity over the years, with demand for HDDs and SSDs continuing to grow rapidly.

From Waste to Resource

July 15, 2024

How Standardized Health Metrics Can Accelerate the Circular Economy in Storage Media

Seagate Teams Up with eBay to Expand Hard Drive Circularity Program

June 18, 2024

Seagate builds circularity into the drives we bring to market.

Purge? Dial? Data Sanitization with Steve Mellings and Jonmichael Hands

November 3, 2023

One of the most important functions of any R2 facility is proper management, processing and sanitization of data bearing devices in electronic equipment.

Securely Disposing Of My Old Hard Disk Drives

September 23, 2023

The article by Tom Coughlin describes his experience using a HDD sanitization and disposal service to securely erase data from old HDDs, ensuring the drives can be reused or recycled without compromising sensitive information.

From E-Waste to Circularity

July 14, 2023

Why the hard work of sustainability is worth it, even in a downturn.

Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed

June 6, 2023

“You don’t need an engineering degree to understand that’s a bad thing,” says Jonmichael Hands.

Solidigm Committed

April 21, 2023

Partnering on Sustainable Solutions for Data Storage

William McDonough Shares Insights on Carbon in the Circular Economy at CNBC’s Sustainable Returns Event

April 20, 2023

The event aimed to explore how business leaders and investors can integrate sustainability into their strategies for profit and the greater good.

How To Achieve Circularity Through An All-In Effort

March 3, 2023

Unidirectional supply chains are getting harder for our planet to bear.

Recycling the world’s hard drive waste | FT Rethink

February 13, 2023

Wiping software can be used to delete information, but why are companies reluctant to do it?

Circular Drive Initiative Launches, Publishes Findings on Circularity

November 3, 2022

As an initial demonstration of its efforts, the CDI published a white paper providing research into circularity through data sanitization efforts.

Why Big Tech shreds millions of storage devices it could reuse

October 6, 2022

There are better options than destroying used hard drives in the name of data security.

IEEE 2883 Standard On Data Sanitization Is A Path To Storage Reuse And Recycling

September 24, 2022

There are better options than destroying used hard drives in the name of data security.