I believe Thermite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite) is fairly easy to manufactor, and would certainly destroy the drives.
Another (less spectacular) option would be to take the drives apart and grind the surface off the platters with a bench grinder. Josh On 11/9/05, Mike Parkhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like to wipe the disk with DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) and then > physically destroy the drive with side cutters, hammer, drill, etc as much > as time permits. At home, fire is my friend, and they usually melt. > > DBAN, auto-clave, etc don't touch remapped sectors, which is why physical > destruction is important. Is anyone aware of any tools that wipe remapped > sectors? How about any tools that can read from these sectors (often the > whole sector is not bad)? > > Lastly, if the disks are not bad and the situation allows, consider the > earlier suggestion to wipe and donate. > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Blackburn, Marvin > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [TriLUG] destroying disk drives > > We have some disk drives (hp hot swappable) that need to be destroyed. > Is anyone aware a company in the Raleigh/Durham Burlington Area that > will do this. Any help will be appreciated. > > ------------------ > Marvin Blackburn > Systems Administrator > Glen Raven > "He's no failure. He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George > > -- > 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 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 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/
