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Rory Alsop
Rory Alsop
16:07
@packs - good thanks. That's me seen 8 new films because of two long flights :-)
@AviD - 100 days, you crazy fanatic :-)
packs
packs
16:33
@RoryAlsop I'm guessing your total flight time back was what, 12 odd hours?
 
3 hours later…
packs
packs
19:24
Well, that was fun.
I just came back from overseeing a drive crushing.
Iszi
Iszi
@packs Those are fun.
Haven't overseen a hard drive being done before, but I've had to watch over some bulk paper shredding in a mobile unit - those things are quite impressive.
packs
packs
Yeah, it is. Traditionally, our load was sufficient to just do wiping, but for the last 18-24 months we've been centralizing our IT services.
So lots of equipment got absorbed, replaced, or otherwise rendered unnecessary. I.e., lots and lots of drives all of a sudden.
It's not as cool as shredding, but still way fun to press that button until the motor popped out the bottom.
Iszi
Iszi
@packs It's interesting to see how different groups handle things differently. Had one mass-wiping project of probably a couple hundred drives or so, which pretty much kept me in a warehouse for about a month doing nothing but waiting for DBAN to finish running.
packs
packs
Yeah, that would suck.
A few times I've done a mass purge of our forensics lab. It usually results in me pulling every available computer off the shelf and retooling for about a week.
The last time, between the machines and duplicator sleds, I was able to do about 25-30 at a time.
Iszi
Iszi
@packs You don't by chance know anything about that BackupExec question I posted in The Comms Room, do you?
packs
packs
19:33
With the size of our work room, it was a little... oppressive in there while that was going on. Lots of noise and EMI. Made my head feel a little funny after about 10 minutes :)
No, sorry, I don't.
I don't really have any experience with BackupExec
I think we have some people at the university that either do, or have, used it
Iszi
Iszi
@packs I think we had about 12 machines on our bench, each with all available SATA and PATA ports used until the job was done.
So, about 4-6 drives per system.
packs
packs
Ah, yeah, that's a bit more than I had.
We really have two forensics stations, so they each have a bunch of ports
Iszi
Iszi
Used a nice little KVM daisy-chain to minimize peripherals too.
packs
packs
4 IDE, 4 SATA, and one SCSI channel
A couple of regular workstations, and a couple of 4+1 bay MASSters
Iszi
Iszi
@packs How familiar are you with Notepad++?
packs
packs
19:39
@Iszi That's a Windows thing, right?
Iszi
Iszi
@packs facepalm
I think there's a *nix version... but in my case, yes.
On second check - looks like it may be Win only.
packs
packs
Sorry, mate, no.
That doesn't surprise me.
We have vi, why would we need notepad++? :)
Iszi
Iszi
@packs Because we like gooey stuff?
packs
packs
Just like the Mac guys!
 
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Iszi
Iszi
23:13
@packs @RoryAlsop - Geez, this place is dead. You guys are about the only other people I ever see in here. And @AviD now and then, too.
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