TDI Connect accepts donated computers (Macs) with these specifications:
- Intel chip sets
- Macs from no earlier than 2011
- 4GB of memory or more
- with or without a hard drive
Data Overwriting and Destruction
An issue for some equipment donors is the ability to ensure that any residual data is effectively made inaccessible. TDI Connect has three approaches to gain the required level of removal of access to data:
1. The disk drive in the PC is removed by the donor organization prior to donation of the PCs.
2. TDI Connect will remove the drives and give them back to the donor organization for their own processing.
Please note that in approach 1. and 2., TDI Connect puts new disk drives in the PCs. Generally these are Solid State Drives.
3. TDI Connect machines are all loaded with the Xubuntu variant of the Linux operating system. This creates a completely new file system on the disk drives and removes access to old data. This is equivalent to doing a Windows Refresh for Windows PCs.