[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[John Hearns]

J F wrote:
> Isn't there a way of doing this using a magnet?
>
>   
Probably not. Unless you had access to a BIG magnet
(speaking as a person who once worked in an environment where the CRT 
monitors were so affected by the stray field that you had to lean 
sideways to read them).

I would say an oven would be better - heat the platters to above the 
Curie temperature and any magnetic
domains in the material are gone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_point
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