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Data Destruction? Hard drives?


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just do it yourself, get a drill and drill through the casing in multiple locations

 

Since it's not state secret stuff and the NSA already has all your data. Drill 3-4 holes through the platters, smash with a hammer a few times until you feel better. Done.

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Writing 0s to the drive once is sufficient to make all data unrecoverable. Anything beyond that is based on old technology combined with urban legend.

 

 

eta: If they're older and you have no way to plug them in to wipe them, you can get some torx bits and dismantle them, remove the platters, and bend them in half. Technically some data could still be read, but it's incredibly unlikely that any actual information would be recoverable, and really, who would bother?

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