Local inexpensive media destruction?

[Matt Minuti]

The magnets inside hard drives are super strong - best fridge magnets
you'll ever have. And the platters make decent first-surface mirrors.
On Dec 22, 2014 5:08 PM, "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> wrote:

> 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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