Hard Drive destruction question?

[xiondavis]

Just drill thru them, unlikely that anyone will spend the money removing the platters and getting your data. Equifax already gave the world your SSN and other information anyway.

If you want to do via software, plenty of tools are out there to erase and overwrite the data the amount of times you specify (DBAN, for instance or if you have Linux you can use DD and overwrite with 0's). Note that this will take longer than drilling thru them.

+1 drill a couple 3/8” holes in them. Often, the drive platter will shatter when you drill it. Technically, data can be recovered from a drive with a couple holes in it but not by any casual scammer. Squirt some mayo in there if yer nervous.