Yep, good old physical damage -- nails or smashing -- is the quickest and cheapest means of rendering drives unrecoverable. Drive wiping can take hours with big drives. And after I smash 'em, I bring them to electronics recycling Chris Hart Computer Support & Technology Consulting for Connecticut and Western Massachusetts Tel: 860-291-9393 chris at chrishart.net http://www.MyMacTech.com > On Mar 20, 2016, at 8:35 PM, scot <scot at scotbroderick.com> wrote: > > > The old school approach is to drive a couple of nails through the drive. :) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20160320/7f779f3a/attachment.html