[Discuss] Disk/Tape Eraser

[srehrlich at gmail.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Chris O'Connell <omegahalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can anyone recommend a piece of hardware used to erase hard
> disks/tapes/floppies? ?I've done some googling, looked on Amazon and
> NewEgg, but can't seem to find anything that fits the bill.
>
> Thanks,
>

Erase or destroy?    You could simply destroy it by unscrewing it and
manually rotating the platters out of sync.    It would be near
impossible to reallign the heads again.

bcwipe can help, or even a simple ATA secure erase, possible via
bcwipe or the free hdderase.

Scott

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