Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?
From: Doug McIntyre (merlyn_at_geeks.org)
Date: 11/26/04
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Date: 26 Nov 2004 04:33:16 GMT
mike4ty4@yahoo.com (mike3) writes:
>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?
Sounds like way more specialized work than just taking the platters
out and burning them, or running a grinder over the platters scrapping
all the iron oxide off them or chipping the platters into a billion
tiny parts. Simple is almost always best.
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