Certificate of hard drive destruction

I offer HD burning I melt them in my fire pit for them. I remove the boards first them crack them open with a hammer in they go. DOD certified erasing software is not often compliant with the DOD. The best and only secure way is total destruction.



I sell no hard drives for any reason.

Eric

etack is right. Some programs are not up to DOD standards even if they say they are. You need to use a good program if your going to resell drives. With that being said. You can wipe a drive 30 times and if you want to spend enough time and money the info can still be recalled. The only way to garuntee data destruction is complete physical destruction. Now is this really needed? For government and medical stuff yes. For your average home computer NO. If you wipe a drive to DOD standard and have proof that you did wipe the drive and someone takes the time and money to recover the drive and then steals the data. Guess what your covered. You may still get sued but anyone can sue anyone for any reason. I could sue etack for slander right now if I wanted to. Would I win? Nope. Thats where the liability insurance I talked about earlier comes in. If you have the insurance and someone decides to sue you then let them fight it out in court.

Originally Posted by mikedmissouri

Do the platters actually melt?

They should if the fire gets hot enough. They are aluminum.