Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk 289
Barence writes "Following his blog last week about the homemade hard disk destroyer, Bustadrive, Mike Jennings was deluged with comments from readers, both on the blog and here on Slashdot. Most seemed to like the product, but also offered up far more innovative and madcap methods of hard disk destruction, with a wide range of implements used — household and otherwise. In this follow-up post, he rounds up the best of an imaginative bunch of hard disk destruction methods."
Missing option (Score:5, Funny)
Install Vista on it?
You only need one (Score:2, Funny)
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Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk (Score:5, Funny)
1) .45 caliber 1911 style handgun (gets the job done)
2) .357 magnum revolver (gets the job done with a louder bang)
3) 10mm auto handgun (gets the job done and lets you pretend to be Ted Nugent)
4) .44 magnum revolver (gets the job done and lets you pretend to be Clint Eastwood)
5) 9mm handgun (gets the job done and lets you pretend that you have a real gun ;)
6) 12 gauge shotgun (gets the job done and looks/sounds really cool)
7) .30-06 rifle (REALLY gets the job done)
8) .50BMG rifle (useful if you run into a hard drive with armor plate)
9) .22LR plinking rifle (gets the job done in a cost effective manner)
10) .223 fired from an AR-15 (gets the job done while scaring the crap out of any nearby big city types that assume any black rifle with a pistol grip is a weapon of mass destruction)
Re:Magnesium (Score:5, Funny)
And when you win a Darwin award, here I'll be able to say, "I knew him when..."
Re:Duh: use a WIll It Blend blender. (Score:4, Funny)
And after you shred the disk with the blender, don't forget to try to return it to get your money back [willitblend.com].
Easiest Destruction Method (Score:5, Funny)
I swear jean designers are in cahoots with cell phone manufacturers. Just slip your hard drive into the back pocket of a girl in a night club wearing tight jeans
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:5, Funny)
Now who the hell is going to trust a post from an NPC. Damn DM is trying to fool us again.
Fastest way (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Spot Welder? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Leverage the spinning platters to your advantag (Score:3, Funny)
...
Even if destroying the drive wasn't intentional. Sigh.
Nuke it from orbit! (Score:4, Funny)
I like the CIA/NSA method the most (Score:3, Funny)
... which is to grind the device into dust, carried out entirely under supervision with all employees holding top secret clearances. I don't know where the dust then goes, but I doubt it's out of the country.
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm surprised they only had a list of ten. There must be 50 ways to wipe your platters.
Just give it a whack, Jack.
Smash it with a van, Stan.
Shoot it to destroy, Roy.
Just listen to me.
Soak it till it rusts, Gus.
You don't need to discuss much.
Toss it in the sea, Lee
And get yourself free.
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, I think I saw this guy at a healthcare townhall meeting!
How to ensure all data is lost (Score:5, Funny)
My favorite way to ensure all data is lost on an hard disk is to store the only copy of my Master's thesis on that drive.
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Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:1, Funny)
Obligatory XKCD:
50 Ways [xkcd.com]
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:4, Funny)
Absolutely true.... there is an easy way to avoid that problem in two simple steps. Either one will work:
1. Don't do anything that will raise the ire of someone with access to an appropriate microsocope.
2. If you can't do one, then stop using hard drives from the 1980s. Dude, where do you even find disk controllers for them that work in modern machines?
-Steve
Re:Spot Welder? (Score:3, Funny)
Don't do this with a ceramic drive...
A freind of mine once.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's true! As a forensic specialist, give me a disk that has been overwritten with zeros, and I can recover approximately 50% of the bits that were on the disk before it was wiped.
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Re:Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk (Score:2, Funny)
What's the point of 3700 fps? The human eye can't possibly see the difference after about 50 fps. Any more than that, and your video card is just an expensive heater. But maybe it'd be useful to keep the chug at bay for big raid fights.
Re:Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Magnesium (Score:3, Funny)
Well, the last thing I remember is, me and Billy Joe and Frankie and my brother George were in the Dew Drop Inn having a few beers, and Billy Joe says 'hey everyone, let's go huntin'!', and I said "I'm game."
Thank you very much, I'll be here all week...
train (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You only need one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:3, Funny)
where a raven swoops down out of the sky and snags the coin midair and flies away with it.
I hate it when that happens. Scurrilous wee flappy raven bastards.
Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, people, I give up. Can someone please explain why the guy I responded to was funny and what the joke is?
I thought that overwriting everything with zeroes or ones and zeroes was a standard way to "sanitize" a drive, and that these forensic specialists often find data recovery a trivial matter even after doing such a wipe.
I've reread the guy's post several times and am still not seeing what caused the funny bit to be set. (Blame insufficient sleep for this perhaps?)