On 2024-03-23 10:50, Giles Orr via talk wrote:

I have, for many years, used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" on a USB stick to
securely wipe spinning hard disks.  It takes a long time, but I mostly
understand and trust the process.

I'm now at the point that I have to wipe and dispose of SSDs, and I'm
feeling a bit shaky on the methodology.  Here's what I did:

    # hdparm -I /dev/sdX

If the disks are destine for the electronic waste bin the lowest tech solution is a hammer with a sharp pointy end.
Or a hammer and a center punch.
Pierce the cover and bend the disks, at that point only a government level lab may be able to reconstruct the data.

The same center punch on a chip will also make the data unrecoverable.

Also pounding the crap out of a disk drive is very cathartic.

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