[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:38 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 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.

Cool! So my "dissolve the magnetic media off the physical platters"
process meets the requirements as the output size will be atomic
scaling.
> 
> 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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