All this sledgehammering, ack. I always open mine up and get the magnets first. Someone gave me an old IBM 5 1/4 full height drive. I think it was like 128MB. The magnets were huge. They're in my garage stuck fast to each other on either side of a 2x4. Most of the paper stuck to my fridge is done so with old HD magnets.
Ken On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:00:00 -0500, Brian Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > 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 > > > -- --------------------------------------------- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt -- 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
