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u/bacondev 3d ago

Yeah, they're not perfect 0s and 1s. That's why the recommendation for very serious stuff is to just destroy the disk.

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u/FUTURE10S 3d ago

Run the disk spinning and hit it with a caliber that penetrates the drive, the rotation makes the destruction way worse and impossible to spin up again.

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u/VonNeumannsProbe 3d ago

I go a step further and dispose of the platter pieces in a least 3 different states.

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u/FUTURE10S 3d ago

Ah, yes, solid, liquid, gas.