I have half a cupboard full of floppy disks that contain confidential data, and I want to destroy them. I don't need the disks - who uses them any more? Mike Whitaker
Many "heavy duty shredders" bought by companies can now destroy floppy discs, CDs, DVDs, credit cards, name tags and sometimes audio and video cassettes, but they are too expensive for one-off jobs or home use. Cheap machines might be able to shred the magnetic disks if you remove these from their cases, but that would be a long, tedious job. Alternatively, lots of companies now do commercial shredding up to a specified security level. Try searching for "shredding solutions" or "security shredding".
I imagine a large hammer and a stake would do enough damage to a small tower of 3.5in floppies, but have not tried this myself.
