HDD Destruction Challenges/Confusions

[Virgorising]

I would bet that most things .223 > would go right through personally.

K....this thread has been hijacked by the NRA. :sneaky:

 

[Virgorising]

DoD 7 pass overwrite. Then do whatever you want with it.

Those were not my drives. Plus, they were old IDE drives. I had no intention of hooking them up to any of my computers. I think I don even have an adapter.

Plus, in the event those who would find them....first the porter who picks up the trash, and on from there, would behold them and get felonious thoughts, I wanted them to be visibly mangled enough to mitigate/discourage those thoughts.

 

[corkyg]

Lots of good procedures in this thread. I rarely need to destroy old drives - I usually DoD scrub them and send them to a school teacher friend who uses them to help others. But, . . . I just to pop in and give personal favorite destruction method. I have a friend who has a. oxy-acetylene torch- and it is really fun to simply cut through an HDD. Yeah - overkill, but fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MSNRApnFQ

 

[John Connor]

The resistance gets rid of terminators by thermite. You can buy the components on eBay. But DBAN always works. Just don't use 32 passes. 7 is good enough.

 

[denis280]

Use dynomite?:awe::hmm:

 

[Virgorising]

Lots of good procedures in this thread. I rarely need to destroy old drives - I usually DoD scrub them and send them to a school teacher friend who uses them to help others. But, . . . I just to pop in and give personal favorite destruction method. I have a friend who has a. oxy-acetylene torch- and it is really fun to simply cut through an HDD. Yeah - overkill, but fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MSNRApnFQ

Re the torch, see my post #13. When I started finding this, I thought would be a simple mangling for friendship taking minutes.....no way like that.....I conjured such a torch in my head.

BUT, using one in an apartment?:sneaky:

BUT, in a proper environment? I luv the idea!!!!!

 

[Virgorising]

Use dynomite?:awe::hmm:

Another fun thought!:biggrin: Second only to a small nuclear device.()

 

[MrPickins]

Lots of good procedures in this thread. I rarely need to destroy old drives - I usually DoD scrub them and send them to a school teacher friend who uses them to help others. But, . . . I just to pop in and give personal favorite destruction method. I have a friend who has a. oxy-acetylene torch- and it is really fun to simply cut through an HDD. Yeah - overkill, but fun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MSNRApnFQ

That will do the trick!

 

[Virgorising]

That will do the trick!

Yes, I just got one of those setups, put it in my dinette.

Re the video.....OMG, how did Paul McCartney suddenly get so much YOUNGER AND FATTER???!!!!

:sneaky:

 

[Virgorising]

Just found this:

http://www.ehow.com/video_4992405_destroy-hard-drive.html

I hope I messed up the plates.....not really sure, but kinda sure.

This guy says hydrochloric acid. I thought Muriatic. I have no clue re these agents, but again, no need to emerse the whole thing, just drill the holes (if U can, I mean), and pour a leetle acid into the holes to make contact with the plates. later, U just emerse them in some good alkaline washing solution to get rid of the acid. I see this in my head and I like it.

I have new respect for how those old platter drives were made.

 

[alzan]

Just found this:

http://www.ehow.com/video_4992405_destroy-hard-drive.html

I hope I messed up the plates.....not really sure, but kinda sure.

This guy says hydrochloric acid. I thought Muriatic. I have no clue re these agents, but again, no need to emerse the whole thing, just drill the holes (if U can, I mean), and pour a leetle acid into the holes to make contact with the plates. later, U just emerse them in some good alkaline washing solution to get rid of the acid. I see this in my head and I like it.

I have new respect for how those old platter drives were made.

That round, cylindrical object in my avatar is a 300MB disk pack; a spindle-stack of 12 15" diameter platters that were ~3/32" thick (2 credit cards). Individually they were actually pretty easy to break. When the heads crashed on those you could hear them 30' - 40' away.

That sound still haunts me, 20 years later.

 

[Virgorising]

That round, cylindrical object in my avatar is a 300MB disk pack; a spindle-stack of 12 15" diameter platters that were ~3/32" thick (2 credit cards).

Wow.

When the heads crashed on those you could hear them 30' - 40' away. That sound still haunts me, 20 years later.

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.:'(