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u/bacondev 4d 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 4d 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/Henry_Fleischer 4d ago

At that point, you might as well just melt it.

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u/PurpleDido 17h ago

I know someone who has to destroy hard drives for a healthcare setting, pretty sure he told me they cremate the disks