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How to Demolish an Old Hard Drive (and Keep Your Data Safe)

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If you really want to protect your personal data, it’s not enough to just erase old hard drives. You must get medieval on them. Ben Popken breaks out the tools of destruction to show you how it’s done, then sends the hard drive carcasses to a testing lab to see which method worked best.