Re: Fastest secure erasing of HD's?

In article <uce-FF336C.19405530072008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Gregory Weston <uce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Disassemble
the drive and hit the platters with some kind of grinder or polisher.

I do this with every hard drive I throw out due to hardware malfunction.
It's not hard at all to disassemble a hard drive, and then a piece of
sandpaper is all you need. For extra measure, use a pair of pliers to
bend and distort the platters after sanding them. : )

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