I usually whack the circuit-board with a hammer after de-installing, drill a hole through the platters, and run strong magnets over them too. -Rob On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jeremy MountainJohnson < jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: > dc3dd wipe=/dev/<drive> > > or > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<drive> > ..or replace with zero with urandom for randomness. > > These will do a 1-pass to the entire disk with zeros. You can even confirm > with a hexeditor. If someone still gets your residual data by physically > playing around with the platters in a clean environment they probably > deserve it =) > > -- > Jeremy MountainJohnson > Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > >> I have a few older PCs that I want to wipe the drives very well and >> donate. Googling, I see quite a few apps to do so. What are current >> top recs and approaches any of you have done? >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120119/a5aba003/attachment.html>