Re: OpEx vs CapEx
And it's not uncommon for organisations dealing with sensitive data to have decommissioned HDDs smashed with heavy equipment.
Working in education, of course no one senior would spend money on that kind of stuff, or indeed have worked out that old HDDs contained information about vulnerable kids and families.
I used to do as much destruction as I could. I'm aware that many other services didn't even remove the HDDs when sending ageing computers to the dump/recycling centre. Because we once got a query as to why some PCs had no HDDs. The answer being that some services did take the bloody things out first- just not all of them.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
