"js.b1" wrote in message
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On Mar 20, 11:02 pm, "brass monkey" wrote:
What do you guys do with old hard drives?

DBAN.

Does take a long time to run on old or very large hard drives.
Available for a few £ as a linux bootup disk, runs like a DOS 6.0
screen, gives time to complete, various levels of security.

Then you can sell the hard drive on Ebay either for storage or parts.
Plenty of people buy to maintain a large inventory of hard drives to
repair client's units. Data recovery is very expensive, there are
often a lot of iterations of a particular hard drive model and a
replacement PCB has to match.

So destroying a working or commercially re-usable hard drive is
unnecessary.

In the past i've used wipedrive pro, takes quite a while though.