Today was an interesting day...
As year end inventory comes, I told the interns to take and destroy that old Intel 520 SSD as it was just useless and so sad of a failed test now... Just get it out of here... They used bolt cutters on on the nine main chips and had a lot of fun! 
The aluminum shell was sent to the Al scrap can...
And so ends the experiment to see if the Intel 520 SSD was good or bad... 
Far far less than worthless in the end...
But then I got one of those, GET the f*** up here calls... An FDE encrypted laptop where the employee, bailed, jumped, quit , or did the usual equivalent... NO pass available... But an old style mechanical drive on a very expensive laptop machine... The drive maker was one of those "ocean door" highly reliable drives...
Of course, the all of information was destroyed in resetting it back to being useful... But simply secure erasing the drive reset the passwords and made all the hardware just fine and ready for action again. Reloaded the OS and the machine was perfectly good as new for the next user...
A very sad comparison... To makers like Intel that don't seem to understand that destroying the hardware with odd software is just a very stupid waste...
Quite honestly,... There is no reason at all not to make hardware recoverable in ALL cases...
I will not be buying anymore Intel hardware here if I can help it...
