alt Hacker NewsSmashing the disk with a hammer takes seconds. Or dropping it in a shredder.
Used disks are not worth hours of time to overwrite with random data. Just physically destroy them.
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minitech • 01/24/2025
That’s wasteful, inconvenient, and not even necessarily unrecoverable.
Or a furnace. That usually leaves no trace of the physical disk having ever existed, which may be important for <insert state actor/military here>.