Re: Physical HDD destruction

[Chris Garriss <chris_garriss () UNC EDU>]

We are currently using a large, industrial shredder:  no part of the 
hard drive (or other devices) is more than a few millimeters in size on 
the output side.

On 3/20/2012 2:17 PM, Matt Marmet wrote:
> Good day Everyone,
>
> Here at Armstrong, we have a couple hundred hard drives that we have 
> to physically disable/destroy. We also have about 200 hard drives per 
> year that our desktop support staff recover from old machines that 
> need to be destroyed as well. We have seen some of the hydraulic 
> electric presses that are enclosed as well as manual presses that are 
> made for this type of work. What are other institutions using to 
> destroy HDDs securely and safely?
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
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