Quote Originally Posted by Dogman View Post
Funny thing abt hds. is unless you burn them into a melt down, the platters even if broken, the data not all lost,and recovery is more possable than you would think can be recovered by a good lab. Or crush the holy crap so the platters are crushed into dust.. which methinks maybe easy to do if they (platters are glass) but even then some kind of recovery maybe possible, unless they are slagged.

Truth.
yes. shredding disks is the only way. The same way they shred cars. Never simply bin your old computers. Strip the guts out, find a car wrecker or metal recycler/shredder and watch them toss your gear in and mangle it. Then hopefully off to the smelters.