Destroying Data

While most of us do not need this type of security at home, it is good to know the US government is taking data loss via hard drives seriously.

The [National Security Agency] has to destroy about 30,000 hard drives a year,” Knotts says. “Presently they do it by grinding them into powder or magnetically degaussing them” with a large electromagnet. These methods don’t work when there’s little time, power, and space.