It's a good one liner, but you're only destroying like 10% of the surface area of the disk. Granted this will probable render a large amount of the data unreadable, but it's not a guarantee. But sure, like I said, it's not economical to do data recovery for a home users' info so drill away. --Adam On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/f593a71b/attachment.html>