Actually, if you do the 1/4 hole idea, it *really* helps to then turn the drive on. The drives will often shred themselves. If you're in the Navy, of course, you just toss the platters overboard and let the salt water do it's thing. -Josh On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Yaron wrote: > > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Adam Nave wrote: > > > >> I gotta say, physically destroying drives is serious overkill for the > home > >> user. > > > > > > I believe you misspelled "serious fun". > > As a former DoD family member one said: The only way to make sure there's > nothing recoverable on the drive (meaning not making it financially worth > it to recover) is to drill a few holes randomly spaced from the center of > the drive with a 1/4" bit. > > Apparently that's the "DoD-proof" level of data destruction. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120119/1415e040/attachment.html>