Like the others have mentioned, shredding is the best. Esp. since it is Federal. DoD spec only considers shredded destroyed afaik. SSD or not this was my normal practice for that same reason. HIH. Extreme is smelting the drive to molten but that is extremely sensitive data destruction. Fred _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos