[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[Greg Freemyer]

I agree with most of the answers given.

As an FYI: the government requirement for physical destruction of
secret data is to reduce all magnetic media to no bigger than one
sectors worth of data.  That turns out to be about 1/100 of an inch
for modern drives.

At least one company I know accomplishes that via disassembly of the
drive platters from the drive spindle, then taking a belt sander to
each platter.

Greg

On 8/16/07, David Corbin <dcorbin at machturtle.com> 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.
>
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