Gordon Henderson wrote
brass monkey wrote

What do you guys do with old hard drives? 40/100
gig etc. Do you actually wipe them, smash the
electronics or show'em a sledge to smash the platters?

Big splitting axe. One chop and in the bin. Nothing - seriously -
nothing is going to recover the data from physically mangled platters

I dont buy that anymore after seeing what could be recovered
from a floppy that had been aggressively cut up with a pair of
scissors in one of those crime docos.

Its much easier with a CD you can do it optically.

Corse its only the authoritys who would bother,
its unlikely anyone would bother just to get your
financial info etc unless you were a drug baron etc.

(or the shattered shards of really old ones with glass platters)