You do have a few options - the one I've relied on in the past is hitting it with a hammer lots of times, then wiping the magnets over it. It is thought that some of the 3-letter agencies (FBI, CIA, MI6) require physical destruction of magnetic media (e.g., melting in a furnace). release to lower level classified information controls) of IS storage devices (e.g., hard drives) used for classified processing.
Apple Macs offer a 35 overwrite feature - which they claim is what the government requires, but it's complicated:Įffective immediately, DSS will no longer approve overwriting procedures for the sanitization or downgrading (e.g.
If this is really important data that should never be recovered, it's not safe to use the disk any more. This doesn't really answer your question, as you want to use the HDD.
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