Can you do a 'onsite destruction of the HDD'? Like, use a hammer and bash it in front of them....
The Ali in a hard drive is worth good money, technically its 'Extrustion' if its high pressure diecast, extrusion if its extruded, cast if its older/silvery/obviously cast Ali.
Also there's the board on it, very high grade/just good 'ol high grade, but a bonus.
Once you have taken the board off, unless that individual boards mated back to that individual HDD, its not likely to go again, sometimes a exact replacement board will work for a while for data recovery, but not long-term.
However, after the HDD has been bashed with a hammer and the platters bent, there's no way to recover the data unless its for forensics, where all they need is proof that a certain bit of information on it could not have come from anywhere else. Not the actual data.
The magnets, some electric motors, the arms got Gold wire tracing from what I'm told and a big bucket of them is worth $$. A bit of Stainless steel sometimes in the covers, sometimes two sheets, one stainless, one steel, glued together.
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