Wiping hard drives?

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Do you wipe hard drives before passing them onto a third party to be destroyed?

Views on not doing it?

 

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How trusted is the 3rd party?

I would re image it with a build, if possible.

 

If it's going to be destroyed then simply just drill it? If it's going to be used again then either DBAN or Active KillDisk.

 

Same here. It becomes a pain if you're rolling out 50+ new machines have to wipe old drives though.

 

if the drive is being given to someone to use then I use killdisk if its going to be recycled then it's either a hammer job or see how many pieces it breaks into when repeatedly thrown against the skip

 

In this scenerio the best method is... the melt. MELT em' up.

 

I don't pass my old drives on to a third party to be destroyed... I wipe them thoroughly, then if I'm getting rid of them, I destroy them myself.