Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That certainly is a good way to increase entropy considerably. A bit time consuming though for someone like me who is not quite that paranoid. :) Writing 0's, once, over the whole disk is usually adequate for privacy considerations. Regards, Spencer On Nov 24, 2011, at 0:06, pearceww at rmi.net wrote: > > Several years ago, I worked with a group that, shall we say, had no > name!!!! > Our computer folk would take the HDs apart and sand the disks with an > ordinary wood type sander!!! > > For your situation where the data is not really sensitive, using a big > hammer should be OK. Be sure that the platters are really bent. >