Advice requested on proper disposal of Seagate ST3000DM001 disk drives

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

If I wanted to reduce a drive to slag, I’d just put it in a propane furnace (actually the drive would
go into the crucible).  They generate up to 2700F (~1500C) and they’re for melting gold, silver, copper,
etc.  So I suspect it would do the job.  ;-)  Plus you’d a nice molten mess that you can pour out.

TTFN - Guy


> On Sep 21, 2018, at 9:43 AM, Ed Sharpe via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> Hmmm...  OK   take a  giant  sledge and beat the living  hell out  of  it
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> Great  physical release and   data  pretty well   toast... and the sound is.... glorious!
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> And  besides.... you get  some  exercise!
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> In a message dated 9/21/2018 9:20:25 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes:
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> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
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>> Or just throw it in the garbage.
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> That's way too good for these *&#$ing ST3000DM001 drives, and won't provide
> anywhere near enough sense of satisfaction.
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>> Do you really think people are going
>> thru your stuff looking for data?
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> No, not worried about that at all. Disk was encrypted (dmcrypt/LUKS) and
> keys have been destroyed. Not to mention that most of these drives managed
> to destroy the data on their own initiative.