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A close shave: How to destroy your hard drives without burning down the data centre

Paul Crawford Silver badge

Really, why go to all the physical risk and effort apart from the fireworks in testing?

Doh, I just answered my own question...

But really the answer is much simpler: all disks encrypted with a long random block of data that is stored on a chip, and then just zap the chip with a high energy discharge while rebooting the servers in to the usual memory testing slow BIOS start-up that you always use as you worry about data integrity if your RAM is not checked. Key gone = data gone and in-RAM copies overwritten as well.

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