Most likely a single pass with DBAN or a similar utility is all that's
needed to make disks secure.

Disk destruction probably not necessary for standard business environments.

http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/

"Opinions on the required or desired number of passes to correctly
overwrite (wipe) a Hard Disk Drive are controversial, and have
remained so even with organizations such as NIST stating that only a
single drive wipe pass is needed to delete data such that it can not
be recovered (that is a wipe of the data)."

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