Best way to destroy a hard drive?

[modedepe]

Sounds like there might be some damaging evidence on this hd..and you wouldn't want to get in any trouble cause you destroyed this evidence, so maybe you should just turn it over to the police? Or just rip the thing open and pee on it

 

[erikistired]

send it to me. it's never too much work to destroy something. especially something like a hdd. so many ways to destroy it. *drool*

 

[yaak3f]

Some C4 ought to get the job done.

 

[ChefJoe]

Put a brick of thermite on top of the HD and then ignite the thermite with a wall outlet or something.

 

[cHr0nIc]

Get a gun and use the drive for target practice. Then when you done with that, learn how to make a pipe bomb, build said bomb and strap it to what's left of the hard drive. Light fuse, then run like hell. Now thats how you destroy a hard drive.


P.S. This is just a joke. I do not condone, nor do I support such violence against hard drives.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
Drill a hole in the top and fill the cavity with pyrodex. Get a merry midget light bulb from your x-mas tree, snip the top of the bulb off with dikes. Connect the lamp end to a (long) piece of speaker or lamp cord. Put the disk (now a bØmb) as far from your house as possible. Insert bulb in the hole you drilled and cover with duct tape. Connect other end of cord to your stereo. Crank up something. Metallica seems appropriate. Listen for boom. Task complete.

-DAK-

um uve dun this b4 i assume? lol

MIKE

I think he has enough drives to break and such. Once, he posted a video of him hitting a hard drive with a hammer or something. I don't if it was him or something... my gosh, I'm like turning into a shuttleteam fan or something (Not in a bad way), thats two times today I mentioned different videos he posted... :Q

 

[FOBSIDE]

Thanks for all the replies, serious and not so serious. I suppose I will take a hammer to the drive after hours at work. I don't think our neighbors would appreciate us pounding a hard drive to death in the middle of the work day.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: FOBSIDE
Thanks for all the replies, serious and not so serious. I suppose I will take a hammer to the drive after hours at work. I don't think our neighbors would appreciate us pounding a hard drive to death in the middle of the work day.

Oh, come on, have some fun and blow it up or something. Run it over with your car. Or just play frisbee against a brick wall and tape it all, then post it here!

 

[StraightPipe]

If you drill a hole in the end of the drive with the connectors, and stand the drive on its end (which is strictly prohibited in the manuals) then poor high octaane gasoline (or Jp8 from your local airport [they really will sell it to you!])into the hole, then burn it for 50-60 minutes it will destroy all the data on the platters. Just put the drive in a pale or trash can with the gas, and be sure you get plenty of gas inside of the drive to cook it inside out.


That would be dramatic, but effective.

 

[Blain]

Bluff...

Tell the person that you've seen what's on the HD and that some $$ will buy your silence.

 

[mechBgon]

Here's my nominee: Destruction.MPG That's how I take care of drives at work, when it's their time to go

 

[sharkeeper]

IBM aka Hitachi (HGST) disks have a built in security feature. Glass platters!

Destruction is simple and chances of recovery practically nill.

-DAK-

 

[thorin]

1) Click the little "Search" button up there ^ to the right.
2) Type in "Erase"
3) Make sure General Hardware is selected.
4) Click "Search!"
5) Read the resulting threads.

Thorin

 

[jacktesterson]

First take a screw driver and bend all of those pins ...then take a steel aluminum baseball bad and beat the living _____ out of it...thenpour gasoline on it, lite er up and throw it in the neighbors garage

 

[buleyb]

Originally posted by: FOBSIDE
Thanks for all the replies, serious and not so serious. I suppose I will take a hammer to the drive after hours at work. I don't think our neighbors would appreciate us pounding a hard drive to death in the middle of the work day.

Assuming the drive is still in working order now, run a DoD approved wiping program on it (7pass is the die-hard way, 5 should suffice). When its all done, if you want to physically destroy it, go ahead, but its not necessary. 7 passes with a DoD approved algorithm is deemed unrecoverable.

 

[thorin]

DBAN (Darik's Boot & Nuke) Covers the following wipe methods:

Quick Erase
Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Standard Wipe
American DoD 5220-22.M Standard Wipe
Gutmann Wipe
PRNG Stream Wipe

Thorin

 

[buleyb]

yep DBAN will work wonders...thanks for the link Thorin

 

[DarkKnight]

give it to the police

 

[buleyb]

You trust the police to do something with it? My local cops would just toss it in the trash and wonder why people are stupid...

 

[Noriaki]

Originally posted by: thorin
DBAN (Darik's Boot & Nuke) Covers the following wipe methods:

Quick Erase
Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Standard Wipe
American DoD 5220-22.M Standard Wipe
Gutmann Wipe
PRNG Stream Wipe

Thorin

As much fun as some of the others may be this is by far the most reasonable and useful suggestion in the thread.

The Canadian RCMP and American DoD wipes are used to remove sensitive state data with no chance of recovery, that's what those wipes are for.

If you have something so sensistive that DoD or RCMP wipes are insufficient you should be looking at taking bids

Seriously physically damaging the drives might be fun, but usually isn't as effective as these wipes, and is a lot more effort

 

[Outlawv6]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Here's my nominee: Destruction.MPG That's how I take care of drives at work, when it's their time to go

how'd you train a gorilla to do that?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: shuttleteam
IBM aka Hitachi (HGST) disks have a built in security feature. Glass platters!

Destruction is simple and chances of recovery practically nill.

-DAK-

You didn't destroy that just to post a pic for this thread, did you?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Here's my nominee: Destruction.MPG That's how I take care of drives at work, when it's their time to go

I think I'm gonna try that with an old 1 Gig Western Digital caviar drive that was like the current 250GB drive at the time.... they all wondered how the hell to use up that space, and of course video editing wasn't really around then for home users, hehe. That or connecting it to speakers and see what kind of sounds I can get out of it... maybe spinning the disks around like a DJ would be neat... hmmm

 

[wacki]

Originally posted by: thorin
DBAN (Darik's Boot & Nuke) Covers the following wipe methods:

Quick Erase
Canadian RCMP TSSIT OPS-II Standard Wipe
American DoD 5220-22.M Standard Wipe
Gutmann Wipe
PRNG Stream Wipe

Thorin

This is the best way. All of the other physical methods i've seen on this thread (except for thermite) are ineffective if someone wanted to use an electron microscope to retrieve data of any microscopic sections of the platter left unscathed. Fire won't do much, explosives would break everything into tiny bits, but the data would probably still be recoverable off of the tiny bits. Water, useless, scratching the platters, only destroyes the data on the scratch, everywhere else is still accessable with special tools. The good news is that no one is going to spend tens of thousands of dollars reading damaged platters.

If you have to be ultra safe DoD, will work software wise. Thermite will work for the physical means, but nothing else I've seen posted would do a complete job.


Either I've just helped a paranoid schitzo, or a criminal. If he's a criminal I just hope he's not a pedo or a jihad maniac.

 

[martind1]

yes, whipe it clean with sopftware and then.....


advant garde art!!!!