[Gllug] Thoughts on secondhand server guide price

[lesleyb at herlug.org.uk]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On 16/06/2009 18:31, John Edwards wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:22:20PM +0100, Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
>> <snip>
>>    
>>> When you are in serious need to make sure nobody can get to the data you
>>> just destroy the disk (not you, companies specialized in doing such
>>> pleasurable work).
>>>      
>>
>> Why does that give me an image of Animal from the Muppets
>> playing percussion using a couple of big mallets on a
>> xylophone of still-spinning hard drives?
>>    
>
> We had a sponsored hard drive Whack-A-Thon at Fotango once when we had  
> to securely dispose of some hard drives.

Sorry to be boring but I just get a screwdriver and take/force them apart.
One adequately sized neodymium magnet and a pair of scissors later and I feel
fairly confident any data left on the platters would be irretrievable.

Not rocket science ;)

Regards

L.
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