Gregory's Server@JulianOliver for anyone watching this, you don't need to use destructive methods such as hammers or arrows or drills.
You can also overwrite your disks and reuse them 💯
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@JulianOliver ack! photos are also cool 😎 As individuals, we shouldn't waste time on unreliable drives. But the myth of data security makes companies produce heaps of e-waste. Millions of drives are wasted every year in the name of data security. @kramse @JulianOliver yes, encryption is great and that's the #1. SSD come with firmware-level implementations that overwrite all sectors (also the hidden ones). You will of course have to trust the manufacturer to implement this properly. This is a great resource: https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe_drives_hdparm.html @benjaoming @JulianOliver But if you have a drawer full of low capacity hard disks you thought you might be able to reuse one day overwriting isn't practical or useful. Have you considered how long it takes to overwrite ten 500GB slow disks? Or whether you can find someone who even wants them? This looks so much more fun than using a power drill. @riskythinking @JulianOliver Step 1) Overwrite I usually put a label on a disk, like "overwritten". Less risky if full-disk encryption was used. Been using tools from StarTech to overwrite multiple disks at once, they have some pretty cool stuff. But yeah, if you have zero intention of reusing a disk, you might as well do some quick irreversible damage to it :+1: @benjaoming @JulianOliver I also doubt you’re securely erasing much of the disk like this. Bend the platters back into shape, and I reckon they’d be mostly readable. You’d (possibly) be surprised the lengths people go to when they really want to recover someone’s data. @ids1024 @likesohushhush @benjaoming Could've dd'd /dev/urandom to it, but after I shot it platter was bent, spindle popped, and the glass substrate poured out as dust. Run and reliable  @benjaoming @JulianOliver Fortunately my city council hires a disk shredder once a year and for a donation to the library I can shred all the disk I want. Working diskless devices go to a re-use charity |
@benjaoming yes I like 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=/path/to/disk bs=10m` or similar, but this had a little pre-click of death anyway. Worked, but was on the way out.