On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have a stack of failed hard drives, each of which has failed sometime > in the ancient past (maybe as long ago as the '90s). The only reason I > still have them is that there is personal data on them. I realize that > if they failed it is unlikely they could be recovered without expensive > equipment, but I'm wondering if the best thing to do is to convert them > to blocks of aluminum with holes in them. I'm thinking that I could > drill a hole through each one of them before sending them to recycling > and the old data will be hard to get, even with the expensive equipment. > > Any better ideas? > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens I was under the impression that FreeGeek did the secure thing with them, then sells the magnets. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
