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If you want the ability of the drives to be reused and your pretty sure it's for legitimate purposes, you can do a few (3) passes with a eraser. Older drives that were not very dense, 100Gb or less should be fine with handheld deguasser. Higher capacity drives use higher data density that require more power deguassers to disrupt the data on the discs. Keep in mind, the data on the discs is what you want to 'fade' away with fresh writes for reuse. If you want to wipe completely if you believe that someone may go mining for data on it, you may want to do the current mil spec of 7 overwrites. If you want to destroy the data permanently and save a lot of physical work, open the drive up and take the discs out and just destroy the discs. The rest of it isn't worth physically destroying.
If the drives were part of a raid array, not the mirrored ones, you can prob get away doing nothing depending on the default cluster size of the array.
If your a member of an outdoor shooting range, they make excellent targets that you maybe able to sell.
By the way, if you take the drives apart to strip the discs out, they have very powerful, nearly a gauss, magnets in em that are fun to play with and may prove useful. The discs make nice coasters too.
If the drives were part of a raid array, not the mirrored ones, you can prob get away doing nothing depending on the default cluster size of the array.
If your a member of an outdoor shooting range, they make excellent targets that you maybe able to sell.
By the way, if you take the drives apart to strip the discs out, they have very powerful, nearly a gauss, magnets in em that are fun to play with and may prove useful. The discs make nice coasters too.
