Anonymous

Surrey

IT Consultant

None of these is really foolproof, but the one I witnessed in Dublin on a recent assignment was. This company specialising in destroying data and providing a destruction certificate have a large bowl looking device with a chain centrally mounted - a BIG chain - each link about the size of 2 men's feet side by side - and they load the bowl with drives and seal it and then the chain starts to rotate at speed with a great noise. After about 5 minutes it stops and everything in the bowl is reduced to bits of about a quarter of an inch in size and as there were loads of drives in this destruction process, the possibility of reconstituting any individual drive is as close to impossible as to be negligible.