How to Recycle a Hard Drive

Open SSL can provide you with a stream of garbage that's faster than your storage is. I mean, dev zero should work, but when it's that easy to just pipe pseudo-random garbage all over it, why not? The other thing they got into in the source article was the environmental impact of throwing this away. And so if the drive has years of useful life left in it, shredding it does seem like a pretty big waste.