Bruce,

Depending on what your company does, and how useful the information. 
Many companies as well as government agencies seem to err on the side of 
caution. Though it might take a herculean effort to recover the data, 
because it can be recovered by someone (CIA, FBI, NSA, or some dweeb 
with too much time on their hands), the entity wants the data to 
irrecoverably destroyed. That and an audit trail to prove to anyone who 
might accuse them of throwing them in the dumpster.

It's just cool to watch this machine take an entire PC and chew it into 
so much metallic confetti.


Senn, Bruce wrote:
> So, if you whack the drive with a hammer (or drill a hole thru the entire mechanism) the platter can't spin. But can some crafty device still read the undamaged parts of the surface?
>
> Bruce.
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