Local inexpensive media destruction?

[Tom Buskey]

That seems pretty good.  If you have more time then $$, some things are
pretty easy.

laptop drives shatter when dropped
regular drives can take a sledge.
You can disassemble the drive & sand/grind the magnetic coating.

If you're less concerning than total destruction, there's the DBAN DVD to
write/overwrite.  I'd trust it enough with my personal quicken data, but
not someone else's (whoever my employer is).  Afterwards you could sell the
drives for upwards of $1 ea on ebay :-)

Take the bits to the metal recycling at the dump.

Some shredders can handle DVDs & CDs.

Tapes are a bit harder.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Kevin French <kfrench at gmilcs.org> wrote:
>
> I suspect you've already considered the below but, for us, the price of
> $10 per drive was acceptable.   They did allow me to watch the destruction.
>
> NORTHEAST RECORD RETENTION, LLC
> 101 West River Road
> Hooksett, NH  03106
> www.nerecordretention.com
>
> -Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org [mailto:
> gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Johnson
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 14:57
> To: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org
> Subject: Local inexpensive media destruction?
>
>
> Anyone know of a local/inexpensive media destruction service?
>
>
> As I'm sure many of you do, I have a box with 15+ years of obsolete hard
> drives, floppy, tapes, CDR, DVDR, flash, etc... in my house.
>
> While there has been many trips to e-scrap over the years to get rid of
> computers, media is always removed before hand.
>
> There are plenty of companies that will provide me with destruction
> services including secure transport or on-site processing, liability
> insurance, certification, logs of all items, videos of my actual items
> being shredded, etc.. they all come with equally impressive bills.
>
> Simple degausing and/or physical destruction (preferably while I watch
> because that'd be cool) and the resulting scrap recycled is sufficient.
>
>
> If not, sounds like an opportunity for a data destruction party where
> someone has/rents a degauser and appropriate shredder.
>
> --
> Dave
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