How would you destroy a HDD?

400C isn't even enough to destroy the platters, but might be enough to corrupt the date completely.

The best way to avoid authorities getting hold of your hard drive is, rather than attempt to destroy it (which is hard unless you work in a steel refinery - data can still be retrieved from broken platters), simply make it impossible to find. Chuck it in the sea, over a cliff, in an open delivery/freight truck, etc.
 
^ my dad owns a machine shop (where he has torches that are hot enough to melt steel) so im assumming the hard drive would be toast (literally?)

Anyways...I should start some business where people sell me their hdd(s) and I personally destroy them....

*edit* and then i sell the vid/pics of it for even more (its like a rollercoaster....pay x amount to get into the theme park....and then 10 dollars for a picture and 20 for a video!)
 
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Sounds like a very interesting job. ;) I think to totally destroy a hard drive you dismantle it and then shoot the platters. :P
 
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