@codemonkeymike
Patient data (I work for an ambulance service), so I get it. But we overwrite SSD's numerous times.

@codemonkeymike
My dude, this is coming from an organisation who wanted use to stop reusing RAM sticks and shred them because "they could hold data between reboots"

Once they got the quote of £2500 to shred all the RAM we'd saved, they quickly changed their tune.

Seriously, why do senior IT managers know naff all about IT basics?!

@codemonkeymike
I don't think we have that here. I'm in the UK, and they don't give tax rightoffs for much (that I'm aware of).

But yes, its heartbreaking. Its taken 3 years to get them to agree to give away monitors. So were getting there. In the meantime, I've thrown out hundreds of monitors (laptops, iPads, phones, desktops, servers) over the last 3 years as we just don't have the space to store it. I get it's about data safety, but were literally throwing money away.

@codemonkeymike
I *so* agree with this. My work is forcing us to bin loads of 5-6 year old laptops because they're getting too old for Windows11. They still work fine with Linux (I've tried), but because the big MS says no, we have to bin them.

I've begged and pleaded with them to allow us to sell or give them to charities, but I continuously get shot down because "too busy, no time, not worth it". Its heart wrenching to send these devices to landfill!