On 5/22/06, G. Scott Walters <gscottwalters at gmail.com> wrote: > What do you mean by "Certified Hard Drive Destruction"? > > Too busy to drill the holes in the padders yourself? We use DBAN, a > bootable cd or floppy to erase our drives before disposing of them. > Unless the bios requires it, you can just power the machine on, and > let boot and erase. I think there are other such programs out there > that will do an equally good job. Hard to do (and more expensive, man-hour wise) if you've got, say, four hundred drives per year to yank, wipe with DBAN, then drill through. Not to mention issues with just picking up a drill if you're in a state/federal (read: unionized) organization. And yes, I'm being *slightly* facetious.