"I should finally not bring a giant pile of old computers with me just because I haven't bothered to destroy their old drives this time. I'll just gut all of them and see how many drives I have to destroy"
*pile of gutted metallic corpses to the side, beholding a tower of spinning platter babel*
"oh my god"
now I remember why I just moved all my old computers with me every time
@cwebber How many of them are IDE drives under 200 MB?
@ckeen Smallest one is 500MB
@cwebber That's a lot of data!
@cwebber Are you still in Chicago? Should I bring my drill over?
@pushcx Ha... unfortunately not! I'm in Madison, WI, and we're just about to move to Easthampton, MA! That's the whole reason I'm taking everything apart right now...
@cwebber how many are less that 4GB? I still have a 500mb drive I just cannot get rid of. It still works.
@timotheus Only one that's that small I think
@cwebber I had something similar a few years back. Bought a USB dock for hard drives and wiped them.
Now, I full-disk-encrypt every drive.
@liw Yeah, problem is that many of these are drives that failed, so I can't wipe them easily!
@cwebber If I had that problem, I'd dismantle the drives, too. I've been lucky enough to not to have had to.
@liw It's also for the older ones, I know many failed totally, and I don't remember which, so for a percentage of them I'm just taking all of those apart at once and destroying because my timeframe is limited.
@liw For the rest, I'll be starting up my old friend dd tonight
by the way the answer is: 21 hard drives