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Shred vs. melt?

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Originally Posted by C1ay View Post
… if you really want a physical destruction of data I recommend a Hard Drive Shredder...
A gadget that can completely confetti-fy a hard drive strikes me as a pretty hefty and likely expensive piece of equipment, beyond the means of the average data paranoic.

The drive platters I’ve seen appear to be mostly aluminum (melting point about 665° C), so I suspect they could be melted (with care!) in an steel or copper pot on an ordinary electric stove. I doubt that even the most sophisticated technologist could recover data from the resulting dirty ingot.


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