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Nwipe vs HDD physical destruction (hackertalks.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jet@hackertalks.com to c/privacy@programming.dev

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I have a bunch of hard disks that have come to the end of their useful life, I was thinking about physically destroying them, but that seems like a lot of work.

https://github.com/martijnvanbrummelen/nwipe

Nwipe and shreados are very popular. What are your thoughts on the effectiveness of nwipe?

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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It literally takes longer to software wipe than to drill a hole as other commenters have mentioned.

Edit: make sure it's through the platters, not just the circuit board end