On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:42 -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > If you are decommissioning, there is no substitute for an electric drill. What, just drill a hole in it? That will only affect a small part of the disk. I think our sysadmin team has a large log-splitting axe - much more satisfying :-) I'd vote for melting down the platters :-) Richard