Hard drive safe disposal

BreamoreBoy

Odid wrote: »

Many thanks for all your suggestions. Willl seek out a heavy hammer forthwith. Sounds quite therapeutic actually.

Bonfires are rather effective and therapeutic, so why not try both for maximum effect?

Toxteth_OGrady

Originally Posted by CoolHotCold
HEHEehehe, +1 for the hammer. At my work we have to dispose of hard drives sometimes, so I pickup the sledgehammer we have (for cases like this) and go outside and just go nuts.

anewhope wrote: »

I hope they don't contain personal information..

Nothing wrong with putting owners' names on hammers :rotfl:

shaun_from_Africa

True story.

Many years ago, I was working in a company that had a large sheet metal dept, and one of the sheeties was very pi88ed off because his long term girlfriend had split with him and was seeing someone else.

A couple of days after this happened, the person in question finished work, got extremely drunk then went home.
The next morning he was met at his front door by 2 policemen who wanted to know where he had been the previous night as someone had thrown a large hammer through the window of the new boyfriends car, and he was the main suspect.

Of course he totally denied having anything to do with it, right up until the point it was mentioned to him that the hammer involved in the incident had his name engraved on the head!

John_Gray

Lucky for him, then, because the police would have been able to return it to him!

timmygcsc2308

Gutmann or opening the drive and destroying the platters, the only ways forward

Richie-from-the-Boro

Odid wrote: »

I have an old, knackered hard drive, but am reluctant to take it to recycle in case someone gets their hands on my personal info. What do I do? Drown it in the bath?

-as others have said .. .. here I'll lend you mine mate :beer:

Toxteth_OGrady

Is that Jimmy Nail?