@lupyuen I can't believe they reported that. The industry standard calls for wipes and shredding. A hard drive would be a logistical challenge to reuse as the quality couldn't be guaranteed.

Different manufacturers and different models of drives pose even more problems. There's a reason why Western Digital has different colored hard drives. A Red or a Purple drive would work well for storage but it wouldn't be acceptable to try to use one in place of a Black series.

The business section too. It could be viable if encryption is used on the whole hard drive but I highly doubt that this is a common occurrence. There's also the chance of someone grabbing the keys or using embedded malware to save the keys on an unwriteable area of the drive.

Scrap the old desktops but save the hard drives for reuse. That sounds like management.