Hard Drive Destruction! en masse!

[goaliepride]

Hey guys, I have inherited the problem of a large volume of dead hard drives. Some accessible and some not. I do not want to toss these intact.

Know of any good ways to easily break the ability to get into these?

I was thinking of making a couple holes with a power drill, but If there's anything easier I'm all ears.

[contink]

Apparently the MOD use an angle grinder... I imagine that would be quite effective

[FN-GM]

You could take them down your technology department and let some students loose on them.

[goaliepride]

contink - not bad, but with roughly 100 of these, I'd hate to have to open them.

[Jona]

Data Terminators - Computer Hard Drive Destruction On-site ?

[goaliepride]

actually I'm in the U.S. . How I wound up on this board I'll never know, but I do like it.

I should have also specified, I'm looking for as close to free as possible.

[contink]

Data Terminators - Computer Hard Drive Destruction On-site ?

Wow!... Now that's tech therapy with a real twist

[ChrisH]

I just stick my knackered ones on the column drill in tech and put a few holes in em. Doesnt take long at all.

[elsiegee40]

I am a fan of the lump hammer!

One sharp blow and the plates shatter... it's very therapeutic!

"This one's the ICT co-ordinator... this one's the SMT...that G!t in Year 11... so's this one come to think of it..."

You'll get through them in no time

[ICT_GUY]

Platters Shatter? Consumer drives are normally Aluminium, and I have yet to come across a Glass platter even though they do exist.

Lump Hammer will work fine though, pillar drill will also put them beyond use. Buy a bulk degausser if you have money.

Or take them to your local shooting range and have yourself some fun.

[pete]

Platters Shatter? Consumer drives are normally Aluminium, and I have yet to come across a Glass platter even though they do exist.

I have, while not paying sufficient attention or noticing the unusually light platter I did the "fold the platters with my hands" trick .

We drill them or (for laptop drives) snap them in half and fold the platters.

[Midget]

What I have done in the past with 2000+ HDDs is get an intern to sit and drill through the lid into the platters of all the drives with a Black and Decker Power Drill. Noone will recover from that.

with desktop drives you'll just drill a hole, but with laptop drives the platters will shatter