[noop]

Well name off some "safe" ways to dispose of your hard drives!

• Drill holes into the device with your drill.
• Microwave it.
• Freeze it in liquid helium and then hit it with a hammer and watch it shatter into a million pieces.
• Use them as target practice when using a firearm.
• Run it through a hard drive shredder
• Cut the platters with tin snips

I wouldn't recommend using the microwave as your number one alternative to kill a hard drive as it burn up in your microwave.

Add your suggestions!

[Pirate07]

noop, on 30 October 2009 - 04:47 AM, said:

Well name off some "safe" ways to dispose of your hard drives!

• Drill holes into the device with your drill.
• Microwave it.
• Freeze it in liquid helium and then hit it with a hammer and watch it shatter into a million pieces.
• Use them as target practice when using a firearm.

I wouldn't recommend using the microwave as your number one alternative to kill a hard drive as it burn up in your microwave.

Add your suggestions!

LOL "Microwave it" I don't think that would be safe When I was in the military we use to send them threw a shredder (similar to a paper shredder). So there was nothing left of them. Drilling Holes and then beating it with a hammer sounds like fun, and is the route I am going to take

[noop]

5. Run it through a hard drive shredder

[madmatt2006]

When disposing of hard drives for the police a few years ago we had to Drill holes into the HDD's platters with your drill.

[Uncle Fester]

Drill's a good one - also I have taken them apart and cut the disc up with tin snips - try and recover that.

[noop]

Uncle Fester, on 03 November 2009 - 10:17 PM, said:

Drill's a good one - also I have taken them apart and cut the disc up with tin snips - try and recover that.

Number 6

[Uncle Fester]

I wonder what would happen if you put one in a CAT scanner (I'm definitely a Curious George), or do I mean MRI?

This post has been edited by Uncle Fester: 03 November 2009 - 10:40 PM

[madmatt2006]

me too. or what would happen to the MRI machine

[noop]

If I am correct, it would instantly rip it out of your hands and stick to the inside of the machine lol

So is #7 throw it into an MRI machine with a doctors conscent?

[Uncle Fester]

If you've got as friendly doctor who doesn't mind you screwing with their expensive bit of kit!
Want to get destructive big-time: how about some thermite? What a misspent youth I had (or still have to be honest)

[madmatt2006]

This method works a treat !!

[Uncle Fester]

I want that job!

This post has been edited by Uncle Fester: 03 November 2009 - 11:10 PM

[madmatt2006]

hehe I'm sure we could recover the data of that drive with a bit of glue and sticky tape no problem (Not )

[Uncle Fester]

Still - remember the Iranian students in the embassies nearly 30 years ago. That kind of dogged determination beggars belief.

Another idea though - acid on the platter.

[madmatt2006]

thermite seems to be the best looking method "Smokin"