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[ale] destroy old drives



+1

Once you pull the platters, take that honking magnet and rub it over the platter. Or heat it to color change with a propane torch.

On March 31, 2019 3:27:35 PM EDT, Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>How much effort do you expect the men in black to expend to recover the
>data on them?
>
>On Sun, Mar 31, 2019, 14:48 Geoffrey Myers via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> So, I?m cleaning up the basement.  Got a stack of old drivers I?m
>working
>> to erase.  Many of which are, not surprisingly inaccessible.  Google
>says
>> simply remove the platters and hammer them into shards.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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