Gregory's Server@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
Step 2) Put in drawer :)
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: