[ale] erasing a hard drive

[David Hillman]

Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a hammer?
 You can make art out of the pieces.  I crushed a bunch of drives that I had
and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a wooden stand.  It
serves as a conversation piece.  If that doesn't work, how about taking a
blow torch to them?   How much heat would it take to melt those drives down?
 I am sure there is a video on Youtube of someone melting hard drives.  Good
luck.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers <lists at serioustechnology.com
> wrote:

> I've drawn a blank.  What is the name of that free software that I can
> use to erase a hard drive?  It will run multiple overwrites?
>
> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't want to
> bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
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> the pretense of taking care of them."
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