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Acid test

Acid test
Another method proven to work well is to leave your old hard drive soaking in acid - apparently hydrochloric is best. Leave the hard drive soaking for a couple of hours and the metal will corrode making the device useless.

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RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard d
Guardian Data Destruction is the only way to go.
They come to your location and punch/pin the drive then
shred it into small pieces.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: glaga Posted on: 09/10/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
If I had a hammer...  sawatzky | 07/21/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bjancar@... | 07/22/08
OSHA?  archerjoe | 07/22/08
De-gausser  bfilipiak@... | 07/22/08
...A slu's a bit messy.  Irritated_User | 07/25/08
RE: Burn it, not explode it  ZergRush | 07/22/08
LOL when all else fails use Thermite  Species8472 | 07/22/08
Depends on who wants to read it ...  terry flores | 07/22/08
I just reuse them.  Species8472 | 07/22/08
Destroying a drive under warranty...  garmon@... | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  mark16_15@... | 07/23/08
Give me an arc welder!  pyrdek | 07/23/08
Good one!  Dr_Zinj | 07/28/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  emma_frost | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  regis@... | 07/23/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  captchas2@... | 07/24/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bripau | 07/24/08
Answer to your question  Don Blackburn | 08/03/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)  bripau | 07/24/08
RE: Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard d  glaga | 09/10/09

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