how do you dispose of a hard drive so that no one can capture your secret data from it?
take it apart and whack it with a hammer I guess is a popular choice, but the inherit danger of flying bits of hard drive have to be considered, but in Japan for just 100 yen, at today's rate just 63 pence or 79 cents you can have your hard drive professionally destroyed,
located in the basement of a building in Tokyo’s tech-oriented Akihabara district, Dark Past Final Disposal Site basically uses a Nitto Zoki DB-60PRO professional hard drive destroyer. You just go in, pay the 100-yen fee, and hand the drive you want destroyed to a member of the staff. They put into the machine, press a button, and four hydraulically-powered steel rods pierce the data storage, rendering it unusable,
paying just 100 yen seems like an absurdly low amount to charge people, even if the nature of the service is simple. However, the owner of Dark Past Final Disposal Site told ITMedia that the idea isn’t to make a profit, but rather to reassure people of the quality of service, although Dark Past Final Disposal Site was originally created for hard drive destruction, SSDs can be crushed here as well, for the same price, when the puncturing operation is complete, clients can opt to leave the drive in the shop to be properly disposed of and to take it home as a souvenir, what a neat idea for people who do not want to drill or hammer their hard drives to death.
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