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Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?

Posted by samzenpus on from the burn-it-with-fire dept.

First time accepted submitter THE_WELL_HUNG_OYSTER writes "I have 10-15 old hard drives I want to trash, some IDE and some SATA. Even if I still had IDE hardware, I don't want to wait several weeks to run DBAN on all of them. I could use a degausser, but they are prohibitively expensive. I could send them to a data destruction firm, but can they be trusted? What's the fastest, cheapest DIY solution?"

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  1. Re:This attitude makes me sick and I'm tired of it by Lehk228 · · Score: 1, Troll

    few hours fucking around with hard drives, or five minutes smashing old hard drives that are too small to be worth someone's time reusing (really who needs a 20 gig hard drive)

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