Re: Google has short life cycles...
Depending on the history of those drives, the total destruction contract might have been more relevant. If they previously held sensitive information, the destruction could have been to eliminate that rather than to push demand for newer disks. I would be very angry if I gave disks to someone for destruction but they didn't do it. Then again, such concerns shouldn't apply to Apple devices since the internal storage is flash and encrypted with a separate location for key storage, so an erase should be nearly impossible to recover from.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
