Re: deleting a hard drive

From: andy smart (anonymus_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:07:32 +0100

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Juergen Nieveler wrote:
| Jim Watt <jimwatt@aol.no_way> wrote:
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|
|>>If I wanted to physically destroy a HD, I wouldn't spend money on a
|>>shredder. I'm sure a grindstone or any tourch would do
|>>donnie.
|>
|>These are both labour intensive and messy. There are
|>large shredders that do the job.
|
|
| It probably depends on how many drives you have to destroy, and how
| often... I've destroyed old backup tapes by the time-honoured method of
| disassembling the cartridge, spilling the tape into a bin, cutting
| through the whole wad of tape a couple of times and spinning it around
| a bit, then going through the whole mess with a magnet a couple of
| times.
|
| Works for a single DLT, maybe even two (boy, there's a lot of tape in a
| single cartridge), but you wouldn't want to do this every day :-)
|
|
| Juergen Nieveler
I once got some students to unravel and cut up about 20 old DAT tapes -
they were happy to spend HOURS on it in their lunchtimes. Know any local
primary schools?
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