[Tfug] Destroying a hard drive

[Predrag Punosevac]

You might be better of two buy couple smaller hard drives than one of the  
500 Gb. Check first
home much are 160 or 320 Gb hard drives for instance. Often you can find  
$160 for like $20.

Have you ever got dual screen working?

What about wireless.

XOrg7.3 is released and it will be in FreeBSD ports within a week. It has  
a special features for hot plug in screens and auto reconfigurations for  
multiple screens.

Takes care
Predrag









On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:30:27 -0700, Sean Warburton <hl2addict at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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