Laptop stuff

[quinterro]

I found a Dell Inspiron 2600 in the office hall yesterday to be disposed of. After trying to get it to boot today I stripped it for parts.

Basically I got 2 x 128MB PC133 SO-DIMMs and a CD-ROM drive out of it.

It would have been nice to be able to get it to start up though....

 

[Unknown_K]

No hd?

 

[quinterro]

It had no hard disk or battery.

Some companies will destroy their hard drives when surplussing a computer to secure their data. I'm guessing that is what happened here.

It would have been nice to have been in there - I'm will be working on getting my Lombard back into working condition and right now it's hard disk is a noisy 5GB drive I took out of an older HP Pavilion laptop.

 

[MacMan]

Yes it's the same at my work, the hard drives are pulled on redundant computers before they are scrapped to protect company data. It's pretty pointless to be honest as all company data is stored on the central server drives as a rule, meaning the only things on individual computers are the OS, apps and any personal files put on the drives by employees. Occasionally the odd machine gets thrown out with the drive still inside so I'm always keeping an eye out for them as spare hard drives are very handy.

 

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

Yes it's the same at my work, the hard drives are pulled on redundant computers before they are scrapped to protect company data. It's pretty pointless to be honest as all company data is stored on the central server drives as a rule, meaning the only things on individual computers are the OS, apps and any personal files put on the drives by employees. Occasionally the odd machine gets thrown out with the drive still inside so I'm always keeping an eye out for them as spare hard drives are very handy.

Not really. Most corps have individual limits for things like mail, requiring use of outlook .pst's and such on the local computer which must be kept. Especially for remote users, it's not really feasible to back these up. Also, even personal files can be subject to archiving for legal and compliance reasons.

 

[quinterro]

Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it) I'm IT at my office, along with support, development, etc.

When surplussing older computer I erase the drives and take them home. So far no other employees have bothered to ask for old parts.

 

[WorkgroupServer]

At my work they go so far as to shred old hard drives. I think it is kind of pointless when they shred perfectly good 40gb 7200rpm drives. I asked if I could format them and take them home but that is apparently against policy and not allowed