Plus, wouldn’t you expect paranoid orgs to overwrite with zeros/random or crypto-shred the data before physically shredding the device? It does seem far fetche

Plus, wouldn’t you expect paranoid orgs to overwrite with zeros/random or crypto-shred the data before physically shredding the device? It does seem far fetched that someone would go to the trouble of putting a 3mm chunk of platter on a testbed only to most likely recover something that may as well be random noise.