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[Gerowen]

Editing the video now, here's photo of what was left after I was done wiping my hard drive today.

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[+jamesyfx]

I took a hammer to an old DVR yesterday.

It was brilliant. I broke a piece off the hammer though.

Shooting the drive would be much more fun though..

[billyea]

I can still see some Bits!

[srbeen]

To wipe a HDD one must continually write nothing to it...

[Gerowen]

As promised, here's the video demonstrating my method of wiping a hard drive of any residual data when it refuses to co-operate with my computer.

Video:

[xpablo]

Yeah not good enough, There's probably some files the NSA can extract, from those platters.

[seta-san]

get a flower pot with a hole in them middle and fill it with two parts powered iron oxide(rust) to one part powered aluminum. get a wick and light it from afar and protect your eyes from the searing bright light.

[Gerowen]

xpablo, on 07 November 2012 - 07:12, said:

Yeah not good enough, There's probably some files the NSA can extract, from those platters.

There's nothing THAT sensitive on there. Anything on that drive the NSA probably already has copies of anyway, I just didn't want some shifty criminal to dig it out of the trash, call up Western Digital and pay a few dollars to have all my personal files recovered and sent to him, :-P

[Hum]

I wipe my drive with a paper towel

[Dushmany]

Hum, on 11 April 2013 - 13:08, said:

I wipe my drive with a paper towel

DAMMIT That was my line

[Dot Matrix]

xpablo, on 07 November 2012 - 07:12, said:

Yeah not good enough, There's probably some files the NSA can extract, from those platters.

Once the control board is dead, that's it, there's nothing no one can do with that.

[Jason Stillion]

Dot Matrix, on 11 April 2013 - 13:13, said:

Once the control board is dead, that's it, there's nothing no one can do with that.

There's equipment that can directly read the magnetic patterns directly off the platters to restore the data.

[DJGM]

Unless it was faulty, that was a thoroughly reckless act of wasteful stupidity on a perfectly good 1TB WD hard drive.
A good secure wipe would've been enough to prevent any miscreant from performing dodgy data recovery on it.

Dot Matrix, on 11 April 2013 - 13:13, said:

Once the control board is dead, that's it, there's nothing no one can do with that.

Except replace the dead control board with fully functional identical control board.

[Chris Rollason]

Boot and nuke to wipe the data forever, then feel free to destroy it in any way you see fit!

[Detection]

Dot Matrix, on 11 April 2013 - 13:13, said:

Once the control board is dead, that's it, there's nothing no one can do with that.

Yea... because the control board is where the data is saved ?