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"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

by the way the answer is: 21 hard drives

@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.

Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@liw For the rest, I'll be starting up my old friend dd tonight

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