I have some old hard drives I'm gonna throw away They were

just shatter the plates

>>60155783
>Should I even bother zeroing them?
Nope. Just take a drill and run it through the drive about an inch away from the hub.

>>60155869
This guy knows what he's talking about. If you do it properly the drive won't feel any pain.

Can I have them?
In all seriousness, I'd blow it up with thermite.

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>>60155880
>If you do it properly the drive won't feel any pain.

>>60155860
>>60155869
>>60155880
>>60155894
All unnecessary

It's encrypted. Just format and it's sanitized. Unless your password is 1234.

>>60155783
Burn with mapp gas and then shred

>>60155880
top kek

>>60156094
We think it's encrypted. Unless we KNOW it's encrypted, we treat it as a plain drive. Shit, I'd even run a drill through an encrypted drive just for the stress relief of it.

Assume your data is accessible at all times, no matter where it is or how cold it is, and protect/destroy it accordingly.

I have worked in an org that wiped and only then shredded HDDs. Why.

>>60156756
Yep, organization I work for would deguass drives (put them in a machine with a big ass magnet), drill holes and then shred them. The reason the holes were drilled were mainly to prevent people from trying to reuse them since they'd sit in a bin by the degausser for a while before they'd get shredded. Previous tech lost their job for reusing a drive from a sensitive system in an internet-connected machine. Dude literally just covered the classification sticker with a green one, imaged it, and called it a day