[Tfug] Destroying a hard drive

[Sean Warburton]

what do you guys have against hard drives? Wow. Even a .357 mag. When I
upgrade (they have  500 gig hard drives on sale for 90 bucks shipped) I will
gladly let the linux community take out it's collective anger on my old
drives.
     Sean

On 9/7/07, Jude Nelson <judecn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Take a "detour" to Mexico, pick up a few M-80s, tape them to the drives,
> wire fuses into them, place the drives and explosives under an aluminum
> trashcan that you never want to see again (preferably outside), hide
> behind
> a relatively stable barrier (i.e. behind a concrete wall, around a corner,
> etc), wire the fuses to you, light them, plug ears, and watch the drives
> shatter and the trashcan achieve orbital altitude :)
>
> ...or you could take the boring way out and unscrew the chassis and remove
> all the platters (and they're about as destructible as CDs--only a few
> scrapes are needed for them to be unreadable).
>
>
> On 9/7/07, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Very good suggestions everyone. Thanks!
> >
> > People at work (this *is* for official work business, after all) have
> > all kinds of destructive equipment, so it looks like we're down to the
> > following:
> >
> > a) Power drill with titanium bit (several holes, or until it stops being
> > fun)
> > b) Oxy-acetylene torching to melt the platters together
> > c) Target practice w/Mossberg 500 Persuader and 12-ga slugs
> > d) Sledgehammer (self-explanatory)
> >
> > We have 5 drives with client data on them, so maybe we'll try a couple
> > different methods to see which one yields the most entertainment
> > value. (FWIW, someone at work suggested using a "professional" data
> > destruction service, but that would completely negate the
> > aforementioned entertainment value.)
> >
> > Pictures to follow in the next couple weeks...
> >
> > On 9/7/07, Matthew Shucker <mshucker at arizona.edu> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:40:44 -0700, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What's the best/easiest way to physically destroy a hard drive? I
> > have
> > > > > some old drives that are completely dead, and thus, I can't use
> > > > > software such as Darik's Boot and Nuke to wipe them. I'm thinking
> > that
> > > > > a couple holes with a power drill would do the trick, but security
> > is
> > > > > the top priority here.
> > >
> > > Build something like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yISqCAnROh8
> > >
> > > ... but with a more explosive target.
> > >
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