[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

Peter Cannon peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
Mon Aug 20 08:44:47 UTC 2007


Richard Jones wrote:

> My best idea so far was to dismantle them, but there are quite a lot
> (about 20) so this would be time-consuming ...  Another thought was
> that soaking them in water ought to be enough to damage the
> electronics sufficiently to stop them from just working.

Find a local scrappy or engineering company with a guillotine which will 
cut them in half.

Its what some of my refurbished suppliers do.

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