When I was at work I happened to pick a hard drive out of a workers trashcan (An old Molex/IDE 80GB 7200RPM HITACHI). Last week I saw that they took a pair of scissors to the PCB in some attempt to make the data irrecoverable for company security reasons prior to putting it in the can. I'll give the woman props for obliterating it despite not having a torx screw driver but her lack of effort to ensure the irrecoverability of the data irritated me because wrecking the PCB is insufficient. To my knowledge all someone would have to do is obtain a similar model drive with a working PCB. Swap it out and run data recovery software on the drive assuming she didn't do much to wipe it software wise. So here I sit. 2:47AM dismantling this hard drive and wreaking the platter to make sure the data can't be recovered...also I want the neodymium magnets :3.