Is this a news story or an advert????

lots of them please

"lots of them please"

If you're into that sort of thing, you can get your rocks off at this little lot...

http://www.willitblend.com/

They should get that guy from Blendtec to have a go...

http://www.willitblend.com/

Love the iplod blending video

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=ssi+shredder

You know your data is gone because you get to watch it being obliterated!

(this does sound like a bit of an advert, what is the Reg price list again?)

For when you absolutely must destroy every mother****ing bit in the drive stack.

Accept no substitutes.

Mines the one with scorch marks.

Alternativly for 10$ per drive this bloke will come with his blender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI&feature=related

I wonder if any of them recycle the scrap?

Do they offer a similar service for the numptys that leave confidential files/laptops on trains?

Now that I would like to see, if a bit gory - although a playmobile reconstruction would at least reduce our collective stress levels.

If not, then this is a new one for joecartoon.com along the lines of frog in a blender...

Cordite

I meant Thermite :)

Both firms are WEEE-compliant, which means they minimize the disposal of their end result and maximize their reuse, recycling, recovery, etc.

Its checking a bureacrats box.

Green = not destroying stuff that costs resources to make while it ain't busted.

FFS get off your high horses - apart from a very few cases no-one gives a shit about your information and if its really that secret don't write it down and don't put it in a computer - remember - two people CAN keep a secret - if one of them's dead.

Here's the cheap but sane approach. Buy a large bench vice and a small battery-powered drill, a bucket, and (to keep the Elf and Safety mafia happy) some safety goggles. To destroy a disk drive, crush it in the vice. That alone should defeat anyone short of an intelligence agency. But if you want even greater security, before crushing, drill some holes in the disk cover. Crush, then dump it in the bucket and pour a corrosive liquid over it. Leave to soak for a few days. Coca-Cola is probably effective, and won't raise any safety flags. (Even though it kills keyboards in seconds and dissolves teeth. Safe to drink? I'll leave that for another day). A solution of ferric chloride, as used for etching printed circuit boards, is even more agressive (and pretty safe. It's murder on clothing, but splashes won't do human skin any harm. Think concentrated essence of rust).

If anyone wants to pay me £1000 to come and destroy 50 disk drives I'm quite happy to oblige. In fact I'll do 100 for the price of 50. Fun day out here I come.

(Anyone know the Curie temperature of modern magnetic media? Baking for an hour at gas mark 10 might also be very effective)

Why would I pay someone to destroy drives when it SO much fun to do it myself?

And if you have a parrot that knows a bit too much and is in danger of blabbing your secrets, the machinery will make short work of it too.

DBAN does fine, as long as the drives are still working. And it's verifiable, because the drive still works afterward. You can send it to any data recovery company you like, and none of them will get you back a single byte of your original data.

The only reason the intelligence agencies pretend they can recover data from even one overwrite cycle is that they don't want to give away the fact that the actual techniques they use, don't involve the drive at all.

I've just spent the last 2 weeks (being paid) to 'decomission' a load of old laptops, including making the HDD's "secure". Once you got the buggers out, you can do the rest of the job using nothing more than a pair of pliers.

(some goggles might have been useful, when a platter shatters, the bits go everywhere)

How can destroying something that works be GREEN?! There is no need to physically destroy drives, DBAN will work just fine.

Oh the PARANOIA about deleting data. Makes me sad :(