A quick pass of bcwipe/shred/etc. just to make them less sensitive during transport, and physical destruction of drives. I pretty much just store the drives un

A quick pass of bcwipe/shred/etc. just to make them less sensitive during transport, and physical destruction of drives. I pretty much just store the drives until I get enough of them and then angle grinder fun, or, if I have someone paying for it, a commercial drive destruction service (and if they let me, I throw personal drives in at the same time, since it's usually no marginal additional cost). I haven't owned SSDs long enough to need to destroy any, but some physical destruction is the only way. I do use full disk encryption on drives and then repurpose machines by changing the full disk encryption keys, but those machines haven't left my control -- it's just for changing e.g. a photo drive to a movie drive. I'd be a bit conflicted if I were buying FusionIO or high end SSDs, but I generally buy 1) fast/big consumer SSDs and 2) big spinning drives, and keep both in service until they're essentially valueless. IMO, degaussing is probably a good solution in a high volume environment as an early step, but it's not as good as physical destruction, and it wrecks the drive, so you really need physical destruction. I dream of having an office with wet lab, machine shop, private SCIF/VTRs and a destruction facility with soundproofing.