Hard disks come up a lot in computer forensics. The amount of power you need to blast at a hard drive to erase the data would be enough to either melt or physically deform it. It is the delicate things like CF cards, which work by melting tiny little pudles of metal, or the camera sensor, which is (by definition) sensitive, that I would worry about. And they supposed go through just fine.
On 3/5/06, W S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flash cards are pretty hardy devices. I'm not sure if the high powered > X-rays are strong enough to induce EMF damage inside the chips? > I would think the magnetic domains in a laptop disk drive would be more > sensitive than flash memory. -- -- Schlake This is my gmail account, I'm more likely to read email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
