[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[Drag0n]

Or for a more final approach, there's always a hard drive grinder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvcD4IFgts

Drag0n

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:29 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Forgot the current workable approach: drill a hole in the top or remove
> the cover and fill with grit and silicon caulk. Turn the spindle
> manually a bit to settle the grit into the platters.
> 
> If that's too much work, try pouring in some HCL/H2SO4 (50/50 muratic
> and battery acids - USE EXTREME CAUTION!!). The iron oxide is soluble in
> HCL and the H2SO4 will dissolve most else.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:07 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> > What do you folks do when a hard drive "dies" (i.e. you cannot get it work in 
> > your PC) and you wish to dispose of it?  I'm not worried about they physical 
> > disposal (I'll save it for electronic recycling) if I can be confident that 
> > the data on won't be readable by someone with advanced tools.  So the 
> > question is, how do you make sure that the data cannot be read.
> > 
> > Thanks
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