Also, the sledge hammer technique is the best one for positively erasing any data that might be on the HD. When disposing of a HD, I always hammer it til no part of any platter exceeds one square centimeter.
SteveT On Monday 20 December 2004 10:05 am, David McDowell wrote: > I'll 2nd this notion! Nothing like a 20lb sledge vs harddrive battle. > I'm sure you can figure out the outcome... + it's good for stress > relief since the drive is responsible for the headache it probably > gave you before the battle was declared. > > David McD > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:09:49 -0500, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > > Personally, I've had enough hassles with failed hard-drives lately, that > > my suggestion is to buy a new drive at the first sign of possible > > failure, and beat the old one to pieces with a sledge-hammer (after > > copying the data off!) to make sure it doesn't get re-used by mistake. > > > > Unless money is really tight, it seems to me that hard-drives > > are cheap enough these days that it doesn't make sense to risk > > playing around with a suspect drive. > > > > TTYL, > > > > Phil -- Steve Litt Founder and acting president: GoLUG http://www.golug.org -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
