Most SSDs that I've seen are plugged in to anchor and connect to
them, with the other end with a screw into a threaded hole to
keep them in place.
So you can pull those and smash them. If you have "high"
amperage, say, 50A at 250V, connect them to that flip the switch
and I hope you can stand the fumes. I seriously doubt that they
would be readable after that. Silicon and related just doesn't
take a joke like the old vacuum tubes did.
Amazing, in the past 50 years we have gone from tubes to
transistors .... chips and now qubits.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 11/1/2024 5:12 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
On Fri, 1 Nov 2024, at 19:18, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
Personally I'd remove the drive and use a physical destruction method
on it.
That's what I've done with old HDDs - remove platters from casing, scratch
and bend them out of shape, and put platters into different bins heading
to land-fill at different times. The drive electronics have gone - at a
separate
time - to the electrical waste bins at the recycling centre.
SSDs will be trickier to destroy, possibly. It dpends if one can pry the chips
off the circuit boards, or put a power-saw through them.
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