Quote Originally Posted by MvPElectronicRecycling View Post
Just wondering how people here, have found the most cost effective way of hardware destruction. I was thinking of picking up a drill press...
If you want to offer a hard drive destruction service you are going to need to invest in a good hardy metal shredder. I believe the US Government has min requirements on hard drive construction that are iso compliant. I know that the pieces have to be reduced to a specific size. Most people who are serious about wanting the hard drive destroyed so the data cannot be retrieved are going to request what is called proof of destruction. If you are just drilling holes into a hard drive plate information can still be retrieved from the spaces between.

A hard drive platter records information in blocks, that are laid down in tracks of magnetic information. Because information is recorded in blocks, one turn around a hard drive platter might contain several bits of information from several different blocks. So reducing the size of the shredded material to a specific size, makes it impossible to recover the information because even the smallest block of information will be destroyed.

Scott