[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[David Tomaschik]

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
>   
Open it up (usually with torx bit) and remove the platters.  Destroy in
your preferred manner: drill, hammer, fire, magnet.

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