[Paladin2]

Even though Hard Drives seem to destroy themselves just fine, smacking them a few times with a sledge hammer before disposal seems to be good practice.

Besides all my active HDs are in quick remove trays.

[Vendome]

Demil by writing over at least 7 times.

My empty space get written over 7 times for general space saving and prepping for defrag.

Erase 32 times for totally cleaning the drive.

If I am letting an old computer go to the bone pile I erase 32 times and take a sander to each side of each disk and bang em hard with a hammer then I toss the leftover pieces in various garbage bins, nowhere near my home or business.