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> physically destroy the hard drives (special equipment) Is that as fun a day as I'm picturing?

• dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  When you've got hundreds or thousands of drives to destroy it's not worth the man hours or consumables to cut them or drill holes in them. Even shooting them gets old quickly. When I worked for a defense contractor we started one of our daily infosec briefings with a video of one of our shipyards destroying a few hundred hard drives. They put them all in a shipyard size press brake. The end result was very long line of C shaped hard drives. Anyone who deals with enough drives and doesn't have other business (like a shipyard) that they can borrow suitable equipment from will likely wind up buying an industrial shredder.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYPCPB1g3o
• jaclaz 8y ago
  Of course it depends on the volume you have to dispose of, but besides shredding there are also hydraulic "punchers", like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shiRKLw5qVI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shiRKLw5qVI Hint: any hydraulic press would do, albeit a tad bit slower.