Subj : Re: New News About Secure Delete (wiping)
To   : k9zw
From : Greenlfc
Date : Mon Oct 24 2022 06:38:53

On 19 Oct 2022, k9zw said the following...
 
 k9> Smacking drives with a sledge is a bit frustrating, as it takes a bit to
 k9> break them up and you are never really sure.  But it also works (at
 k9> least to a commercial level.)

I once was on a job in Hawaii, swapping out machines for a bank.  Because of the nature of working on the island, we couldn't get a disposal company to give us a CoD on the old devices, which is required for banking regulations. So, we left all of the PCs for the branch manager to deal with and took a box of hard drives to our (relatively up-scale) hotel to smash over a bottle of Jameson.

I'm not sure our neighbors were amused.

That said, at least for spinners it's pretty easy to tell when you've smashed them enough; they sound like a box full of sand.  Modern SSDs you need to disassemble the drive, identify the memory module, and smash it, to have any certainty of success with your kinetic wipe.

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