How to erase data from drives

[zoon01]

Some users always ask how they easy can erase their data from their drives, but what if all tools fail

example 1: when nothing works!



Good luck
Maybe others have a few tips too

[b0ssman]

at university we would put them into a furnace

[kenZ71]

I just stack up my old drives in a corner and think I'll mix them in with some cement at some point.

I've also thought about drop them in a bucket of water, leave for a few days, pull out for a few days & repeat a few times with the idea being to form rust throughout the internals.

[David Johnson]

We erase our sensitive data with the help of data erasure software. As it is the best method to erase data permanently without any environment effect. The good part is, we can re-use our hard drive in future too

[mariad]

This is how PC mag blog recommends to erase data from Drives: http://www.pcworld.com/article/261702/h ... drive.html

[hailthemelody]

Throwing into volcano also effective (heard from vanishing Hobbit, so not sure if their advise can be trusted)

[mariad]

Hahahahaha, that was a good one.

[samjohns123]

I think physical destruction of the hard drive is the best that you can do.

[ms49434]

I'm using hdparm to issue an enhanced secure erase command to the HDD / SDD. Working perfect with modern devices, it also erases protected areas which many tools don't do.

[raulfg3]

I use DBAN

https://dban.org/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/

[apollo567]

Well I use 4 Disks for a ZFS - Pool.
If I exchange the disks I do a full NTFS format of each disk and sell them via ebay to different buyers (given they still work). I thinks thats secure and efficient.