(1) For erasing data see data shredder. (2) A device that physically demolishes the platters of a hard disk to ensure that their contents can never be recovered. Hard drive shredding services may be ...

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A time will come when you want to delete everything on your hard drive. It might be when you sell your computer, dump your pitifully meager 500-gigabyte drive or choose to delete the drive's contents ...