Been asked to "DESTROY" a hard disk drive... best method? ;o)

The joy of destroying hard drives. Here are a few various options.

1. Sledge hammer it, then leave all *** componets in muddy/sandy water. Then take it out and get a dead strong magnet over it to ruin the data. Then hammer it a few more times and bin it.

2. Burn it on your fire one evening, may be messy though.

3. My favoruite option, take it to a large empty field/warehouse. Destroy it with thermite :)

Dave
 
do u know theres a company that claim they could find 99% of info on a hdd if its been burned. So basically, get a bath, full of water then a kg of francium, run like you have never ran before , BOOM no more house.
 
Eliot said:
do u know theres a company that claim they could find 99% of info on a hdd if its been burned. So basically, get a bath, full of water then a kg of francium, run like you have never ran before , BOOM no more house.
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That francium would probably blow your arm off way before it hit the water. More like, open the necessarily vacuum sealed container and BOOM, no more arm, or quite possibly you :p. It would most likely react with something in the air the moment the container is opened.

For those not in the know, Francium is one of THE most unstable elements known to man.
 
Eliot said:
do u know theres a company that claim they could find 99% of info on a hdd if its been burned. So basically, get a bath, full of water then a kg of francium, run like you have never ran before , BOOM no more house.
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but make sure you do it quickly as its got a half life of 30 minutes and youl need to cause a nuclear meltdown before you can get ahold of any as the first and last time it was formed was during chernobyl. :D
 
locutus12 said:
but make sure you do it quickly as its got a half life of 30 minutes and youl need to cause a nuclear meltdown before you can get ahold of any as the first and last time it was formed was during chernobyl. :D
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Yeah, that too, it's quite hard to find lying about, and if you do happen to spot any, don't bet on living to tell someone about it :D.
 
Not bad, a thread full of complete over imaginitive carp....


I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Personally if i was so worried about making the data unrecoverable, i would get an angle grinder with a diamond grinding disc on it (avaiable at most good hardware stores), mount the grinder in a vice. Remove the platters from the drive, fire up the grinder (remember you safety specs, dust mask, hard hat and chunky gloves) and grind the platters to dust against the disk.

Can't see the data being recoverable after that lot, not unless you have a very accurate hoover.
 
Eliot said:
do u know theres a company that claim they could find 99% of info on a hdd if its been burned. So basically, get a bath, full of water then a kg of francium, run like you have never ran before , BOOM no more house.
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Impossible.

For a start there is only 20-30g of francium in the earth and it cant be refined into a its elemental form.
 
xolotl said:
Impossible.

For a start there is only 20-30g of francium in the earth and it cant be refined into a its elemental form.
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Yeh but at the same time do you think he was serious about blowing up the guys house?
 
Probably not, its just some people think francium is some kinda of uber bomb death element, when really in any of the forms we can get it in its just boring and mainly inert.
 
xolotl said:
Probably not, its just some people think francium is some kinda of uber bomb death element, when really in any of the forms we can get it in its just boring and mainly inert.
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But they wouldn't be so boring in Francium wasn't so damn reactive :p - dream a little :D - if we could extract it, it would be pretty cool to watch it react.
 
First, break it into bite-size (haha) pieces. Then give each piece to a different friend and have them eat their pieces with with the strongest curry you can find. Treat them to a few beers and then send them to random conveniences - preferably in different towns - to relieve themselves, and have them all sign NDA's regarding where they went to poo (am i allowed to say that?)

I've never come across a problem that the human digestive system couldn't solve :D
 
xolotl said:
Probably not, its just some people think francium is some kinda of uber bomb death element, when really in any of the forms we can get it in its just boring and mainly inert.
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god damn those LIEING CHEMISTRY TEACHERS!!!!
If the only a few g's then how the hell did they find it? :O
 
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