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I also have a few TB of magnetic drives that I should do something with.
Wipe and sell or what though? I just thought because of the size of the SSD it would be neat to use it as a USB drive. I've got two caddies here with older laptop SSD drives in just for shits and giggles.
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Wipe and sell or what though?
If this were the US, the answer would be obvious; draw a bead on the spindle from about 10 yards and pop a 12ga slug though it.
Again, your admirably green aspiration comes up against the fact that reputable brand spinny discs are in the region of £25 per TB new. You'd probably even get turned away at IT charities.
gbj_tester
I assume Norton Utilities still was a wipe feature, but the three-pass Mil-spec thing related to magnetic domains which were not always fully covered by a rewrite to the same address due to mechanical inaccuracies. SSD doesn't have the same issue, so just writing junk files to the full capacity should eliminate any possibility of data recovery by an adversary.
There is a market for pre-owned discs, but 128GB must be below the point where anybody is interested, they're barely over £10 new even from reputable brands.