You mean like in your kitchen? Too much metal, you’ll damage your magnetron.
You could use thermite and melt it to a pulp. Dangerous as well, though.
Really, just encrypt. Your CPU has AES extensions, performance impact is negligible. Simple, clean, and a protection against involuntary decommission as well.
better encrypt the drive and trash the key when you decommission.
Absolutely.
I’ve had to RMA defective HDDs, and was glad I didn’t have to think about what kind of data was still on the platters.
SSDs and HDDs don’t always completely fail either. I’ve had a case where the drive could still be read, albeit very slowly. Writes were not working. Kinda sucks if you wanted to empty the drive before handing it in for repair/replacement.
Nah, they just throw away the block markings, absolutely.
Overwriting a SSD is difficult as well, better encrypt the drive and trash the key when you decommission.
What about microwaving it?
You mean like in your kitchen? Too much metal, you’ll damage your magnetron.
You could use thermite and melt it to a pulp. Dangerous as well, though.
Really, just encrypt. Your CPU has AES extensions, performance impact is negligible. Simple, clean, and a protection against involuntary decommission as well.
Trim does a pretty good job actually. Secure erase as well.
https://rossmanngroup.com/technical-reference/what-trim-does-and-why-it-destroys-data
Absolutely.
I’ve had to RMA defective HDDs, and was glad I didn’t have to think about what kind of data was still on the platters.
SSDs and HDDs don’t always completely fail either. I’ve had a case where the drive could still be read, albeit very slowly. Writes were not working. Kinda sucks if you wanted to empty the drive before handing it in for repair/replacement.