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If a Mac with a soldered data storage fails and the sensitive data could not be encrypted what can be done saving the destroy of e.g. the whole computer or at least the logicboard containing the fixed ssd?
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cm-f wrote:
If a Mac with a soldered data storage fails ...
With an SSD, when it fails it fails. One cannot access anything.
It is not like a hard drive that has a magnetic disk that could be removed.
At least in an Apple service center, if a motherboard is replaced, the old one is recycled.
cm-f wrote:
If a Mac with a soldered data storage fails ...
With an SSD, when it fails it fails. One cannot access anything.
It is not like a hard drive that has a magnetic disk that could be removed.
At least in an Apple service center, if a motherboard is replaced, the old one is recycled.
Yeas, that ist the answer.. They "recycle it"... And charge double what the MacBook is still worth.
Does Apple provide at least a certificate that upon recycling the storage is destroyed?
At least I know that my MacBook Air 2017 or Macbook ro Intel are the last we can trust, as it still allows to change the drive.
M1 this way cannot be used at all, if you e.g run a program not allowing drive encryption.
cm-f wrote:
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Does Apple provide at least a certificate that upon recycling the storage is destroyed?..
And generate more paper that is not good for the environment?
As I said, if an SSD is dead, so is the data. It cannot be accessed if the SSD drive is dead, if it even if the data is still possibly present, which in a dead SSD is very unlikely!!!
cm-f wrote:
Does Apple provide at least a certificate that upon recycling the storage is destroyed?
That is a question you will need to ask Apple.
How should Apple help the environment if a failed Mac must be destroyed if the soldered storage holds sensitive data?
