April 21, 2024, 7:05 p.m. | /u/octoberforest

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I took a few drives and old phones to a reputable computer recycling shop for recycling and securely erasing all data. This is the best/most well-known shop like this in a large city. I paid them for a service they do where they securely erase everything and provide a certificate of data destruction.

They said that they would do 7 passes of 0's on all working drives.

For any non-working HDDs, they'll drill a hole.

For any phones and non-working …

can city computer data drives erase all everything large old paid phones privacy recycling service shop trust well-known

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