On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Yaron wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Adam Nave wrote: > >> I gotta say, physically destroying drives is serious overkill for the home >> user. > > > I believe you misspelled "serious fun". As a former DoD family member one said: The only way to make sure there's nothing recoverable on the drive (meaning not making it financially worth it to recover) is to drill a few holes randomly spaced from the center of the drive with a 1/4" bit. Apparently that's the "DoD-proof" level of data destruction.