Wiping drives

[dennylin93]

Drills, hammers, acid, and really really really hot fire work really well to "wipe" a harddrive, and make the data unrecoverable.

I suspect this is actually less secure than overwriting a drive with zeroes, since you might be able to read information from the shattered pieces.

Do them both? :e

 

[arp242]

Why? There is no need.

 

[fronclynne]

Indeed, don't store those sorts of images and movies on your HDD and you won't have to hide anything.

 

[phoenix]

What pieces? If you melt the drive in acid, there's nothing left but slime. Same for melting the platters. No need to wipe it ahead of time. Same if you pound the platters into dust.

 

[fronclynne]

I just put a note on my hard drive that says, "I wiped my nose on this" so no-one will touch it.