I just recently destroyed an old drive that didn't work quite right any longer. I decided to go for something slightly large than a ball-peen hammer. I upgraded to a sledge hammer. My platters weren't ceramic though. The housing for the drive got demolished, but the platters escaped realatively unscathed....... until I pulled out the torch =).
A whole new perspective on "burn-in". Sad thing was that the drive was an old distro of RedHat that had been my firewall. Doesn't matter how good the software/OS is if the hardware gives up first. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:48:07AM -0600: > > 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 -- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
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