Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD site

Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site.

Credit: SK tes

Inside the laptop/desktop examination bay at SK TES’s Fredericksburg, Va. site. Credit: SK tes

The details of each unit—CPU, memory, HDD size—are taken down and added to the asset tag, and the device is sent on to be physically examined. This step is important because “many a concealed drive finds its way into this line,” Kent Green, manager of this site, told me. Inside the

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