Hi Venti
that could be done the magnetic way, a very secure way is let them spin up and expose then this way to a magnetic strenght >2 tesla, some models wil be a screeching noise heard until they come to a halt, this way not even the tracking is readable anymore ;) .. or let them spinn up and use an 1kg hammer with full strengt if the drives need to be available for other things, there are a lot of lowlevel formater resolving that issue but that will be timeconsuming.
but take care, if you distroy data which should be archived for 5 years acording the law you could be sued, pointing to your boss gave the order doesn't work in this case.
Just my 5 cent's
Roger
On 02.12.2022 11:51, Martin Ebnoether via swinog wrote:
Hi all.
As some of you know, I work at a money laund... financial company. Some time ago, the question arose, how to effectively destroy data safely and securely in an easy way?
How does your company deal with hard disks (or any media) that needs to be decommissioned? Do you just dd a few times over it? Or rather let a professional company shred your media to little bits?
CU, Venty