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As someone whose job in the past was mass destruction of HDDs and SSDs (thousands on weekly basis) for a major cloud provider this is pretty much useless.

If you wanna do it efficiently on scale then something like this is much better option: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqU9QSwHcNg

And for SSDs you'd want something like this: https://phiston.com/product/mediadice-ssd-disintegrator-2c/

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Basically, if you want to do something properly, look at the official 'approved list' from NIST or the NSA or someone:

* https://www.nsa.gov/Resources/Media-Destruction-Guidance/NSA...

* https://csrc.nist.gov/search?keywords=800-88

This is designed for low hundreds per week and probably is priced much more reasonably for that market than what you are suggesting.

You'd be surprised how much enterprises pay for Protons and Garners. For approx tripple the price (my links above) you get about 30x throughput. But I agree, not everyone needs that speed.

I did this for years with a beefy arbor press (just for mechanical drives).

For our scale at the time (destroying 10s of drives a month) it worked fine and it was a great stress reliever.

Get off a frustrating customer call? Go take 15 and take it out on the stack of drives needing destruction.

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