[Gllug] Securely disposing of old hard drives

[Ashley Evans]

Richard Jones wrote:
> I've got a stack of old / obsolete hard drives.  Suggestions as to how
> to get rid of them securely?
>
> I'm not worried about MI5 / govt agency security, but I would like to
> prevent some casual thief fishing one out of the bin and grepping for
> passwords and bank account details.
>
> 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.
>
> Rich.
>
>   
Hit each one with a very large hammer.

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