Originally Posted by
beimer
George...thanks for the reply. I am obviously new and did not even know about the buyers forum..thank you.
If you would take the time to tell me how I can destroy a hard drive in under 5 minutes that would be hippa compliant I am all ears.
I posted a forum last week and people threw out lots of good ideas. However, The first hard drive I did took 15 minutes and I am struggling to see how the components are worth as much as the bulk rate undestroyed price.
I have a great source for computers and have hundreds of hard drives that need to be disabled before I can sell them...unless a buyer can provide proof of destruction.
thanks again
I dont know if you saw my post but you can use a wood splitter to crush the drives.
The travel time of my log splitter is 18 seconds from start to finish. It will crush / cut in half 3 drives at once. The time to reset so i have space to insert another drive is 3 seconds once i have done the first drives the travel time is 5 seconds as i don't have to extend the hydrolic cylinder the entire length.
18 seconds to close + 10-15 seconds to crush 3 drives + 5 second reset + 10 seconds to put drives back on splitter + 15 seconds to crush new drives. Total time for 6 drives is just about 1 minute.
When the drives come out they are often in 2-4 pieces, crushed and the platters are destroyed.
Of course i have a 28 ton splitter, but the 5 ton electric ones will do the trick just fine but only one at a time. However their travel time is faster so you will save a few seconds over mine.
Not sure if it's hippa compliant but it works.
Heres a video!
Heres another - this is more like mine but i add an extra piece of steel so i can crush all the way through
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