Iain Buchanan wrote: > > >I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into >little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. >Could be an urban legend though. > >All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) > >
I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After all that, they still got enough of what they wanted. They put a chemical on one and you could see the data with your eyes. It looked like a round bar code sort of. Whatever you use, if it does it quickly, it ain't worth the time. Really erasing something and rewriting data over it takes a bit of time. That little light should be on a while. I still wouldn't count on it. Shreading it and putting it in concrete may be a good idea. Maybe putting it in a MRI machine would help too. I would leave the room though. O_O Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
