There’s also the fun, and probably dangerous way – find yourself an old microwave, and microwave them. Do it in a bag, cause this generates sparkly bits. You want to damage the data layer along with shearing along the plastic, and these work magnificently. Kitchen shears with one serrated side work well too. I don’t do this very often – For small scale destruction I favour a pair of tin snips – they have enough force to cut through a cd, yet are blunt enough to cause small cracks along the sheer line. This is the right option if you end up doing this routinely. The proper way is to get yourself a shredder that also handles cds – look online for cd shredders. SuperUser contributor Journeyman Geek offers a practical solution coupled with a slightly mad-scientist solution: How should he approach the problem? The Answer What’s the way to physically destroy a CD/DVD safely? Scratching them badly is what I always do but it takes long time and I managed to read some of the data in the scratched CDs/DVDs. I always had problems when I needed to physically destroy them to make sure no one will reuse them.īreaking them is dangerous, pieces could fly fast and may cause harm. I have old CDs/DVDs which have some backups, these backups have some work and personal files. SuperUser reader HaLaBi wants to know how he can safely destroy CDs and DVDs with personal data on them:
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