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

Name: How to Demolish an Old Hard Drive (and Keep Your Data Safe)
Uploaded: 2016-03-17T15:03:34.000Z
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Description: 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.

Want to protect you personal data? You must get medieval on your hard drives. Ben Popken wields tools of destruction to test which method works best.

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March 17, 2016, 11:19 AM EDT / Updated March 17, 2016, 11:19 AM EDT

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