How to Get Rid of a 12 Terabyte Hard Drive

The best answer for wiping drives is probably to treat them like the storage on phones. Modern phones, the good models anyway, will encrypt your data by default. But there are now four or five different iterations of that kind of secure race feature. And some of the early ones are known not to be very good. Everybody's paranoid about the idea that DBAN is kabuki security. Although let's be clear, DBAN is overkill and we're in a position to make sure it doesn't happen again.