On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This has been rehashed one hundred times at least, on various threads I've > been on, so meh. However, I would _love_ to see hard drives erased using > this method, or similar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_bMYFmFGg
Unless that method actually melts the plastic and not merely remove the metal reflective coating it doesn't actually erase the CD. (You'd have to replace the coating to read it, but the data is not stored in the metal.) Unless it's a CD-R/RW. For a hard drive simply bending the platters is enough as well, but you gotta take the time to open it up first. But why bother with that when you can just use a bulk eraser? Non-invasive yet totally destructive. Granted, it's not as entertaining to watch. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
