I’m starting to get back into the swing of tech at large, and found a business laptop that fits my needs for a portable low power emulation device. When I look to buy it secondhand, because I don’t intend to burn money or the environment unnecessarily, I find dozens of extremely cheap listings without drives. Are these secondhand from businesses removing and drilling the drives or is there something else going on?
A lot of these machines are from schools, doctors offices, hospitals, or libraries. Its more expensive to be set up to properly erase these disks with compliance to the law than it is to destroy and recycle them. Also (at the company I worked for) a lot of the value of the item being sold is tied up in the processor and not the storage.
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Likely what you said- they’re not gonna sell machines can could potentially have sensitive data on them.
A lot of these machines are from schools, doctors offices, hospitals, or libraries. Its more expensive to be set up to properly erase these disks with compliance to the law than it is to destroy and recycle them. Also (at the company I worked for) a lot of the value of the item being sold is tied up in the processor and not the storage.