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Posted by on November 27, 2004, 12:39 am
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> Hi.
> Would this make a good mechanism to securely destroy a hard drive?
> 1. Crash the heads into the platters with the drive at top speed
> 2. Seek them from one edge of the platters to the other back and forth
> to \
> ensure good grinding
> 3. Pump a concentrated hydrogen/oxygen mix into the hard drive platter
> chamber
> while the heads are grinding away.
> Would the heat from the grinding be enough to ignite the H2/O2 mix and
> ensure that data can't be recovered? Would this mechanism be good
> enough to keep copies of a large company's trade secrets from a
> competing large company?
The simplest low-tech method is to take the platters out and apply
$2 disk sander with coarse paper in an electric drill to them, then
bend them in half.
--
Jim Pennino
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