Just curious what folks are doing for this. We have stacks of dead drives (probably close to 50 at this point) that have just been set aside in a box over the years. In most cases they are drives that were in RAID 5 or RAID 6 Arrays that failed, but some are not - old system drives, and could contain some sensitive data.
The drives from RAIDs are probably fine since the rest of the RAID isn't there to reconstitute the data (and on those, there was never anything sensitive). But the individual drives from workstations are the ones I'm more concerned about
My uncle used to work in IT for a bank. They had a drill press and would drill 2-3 holes in each drive then fill it with gorilla glue, he said. Seems effective, and cathartic, but probably overkill for our purposes.
What's a good way to more or less wipe anything left on the platters on a drive that won't even mount (so zeroing them out won't work), before we send these off for recycling? What about SSDs?