Ah yes. It was a brilliant moment in geek TV history, back when The ScreenSavers didn't suck.
I'm curious -- for whomever started this thread: has the HD died yet? Shane O. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HD failure eminent? > Steve Litt wrote: >> 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 >> > > Doesn't that make your neighbors talk? > > -- > Dan Monjar I never got to see it, but I'm told there was a techTV segment on destroying old hard drives before disposal to prevent the data on them from being recovered. Appearently they were taking a ball-peen hammer to them and ran accross a drive that had ceramic platters instead of metal. The guy doing the demonstration didn't realise they were ceramic until AFTER the first swing. According to the friend that saw it, he was covered in a fine white powder and was wearing a very suprised look. Skippy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 -- 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
