hardware refresh

September 11, 2026 | 16 min

Two Hundred Drives in a Store Room: A Singapore Manufacturer's Hardware Refresh Problem

A composite scenario from Singapore: a precision-electronics manufacturer consolidates two sites and refreshes an ageing fleet, and ends up with roughly two hundred drives locked in a store room because nobody can answer "can you prove the data is gone?" What a certified, per-serial disposal programme changes about that question.