Re: Proper disposal of hard drives? -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Proper disposal of hard drives?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:14:32 -0500
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Bill wrote:

Interesting that no one mentioned a wiping program. Wiping is usually
the response for an iSeries drive, but not here?

For the low capacity drives it is ... but some of the drives didn't work anymore, so I wanted to physically disable the drives so nothing could be extracted from them.

Yes, it's a bit paranoid ... but better safe than sorry.

Once I got to drilling holes in the broken drives, I got a little carried away :)

david

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