[TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

[Ken Mink]

All this sledgehammering, ack. I always open mine up and get the
magnets first. Someone gave me an old IBM 5 1/4 full height drive. I
think it was like 128MB. The magnets were huge. They're in my garage
stuck fast to each other on either side of a 2x4. Most of the paper
stuck to my fridge is done so with old HD magnets.

Ken

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:00:00 -0500, Brian Weaver <brianweaver at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I just recently destroyed an old drive that didn't work quite right any
> longer. I decided to go for something slightly large than a ball-peen
> hammer. I upgraded to a sledge hammer. My platters weren't ceramic
> though. The housing for the drive got demolished, but the platters
> escaped realatively unscathed....... until I pulled out the torch =).
> 
> A whole new perspective on "burn-in". Sad thing was that the drive was
> an old distro of RedHat that had been my firewall. Doesn't matter how
> good the software/OS is if the hardware gives up first.
> 
> skippy1 at hickorytech.net [skippy1 at hickorytech.net] wrote on Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:48:07AM -0600:
> > > Steve Litt wrote:
> > >> Also, the sledge hammer technique is the best one for positively
> > >> erasing any  data that might be on the HD. When disposing of a HD, I
> > >> always hammer it til  no part of any platter exceeds one square
> > >> centimeter.
> > >>
> > >> SteveT
> > >>
> > >
> > > Doesn't that make your neighbors talk?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Monjar
> >
> > I never got to see it, but I'm told there was a techTV segment on
> > destroying old hard drives before disposal to prevent the data on them
> > from being recovered.  Appearently they were taking a ball-peen hammer to
> > them and ran accross a drive that had ceramic platters instead of metal.
> > The guy doing the demonstration didn't realise they were ceramic until
> > AFTER the first swing.  According to the friend that saw it, he was
> > covered in a fine white powder and was wearing a very suprised look.
> >
> > Skippy
> > skippy at skippylair.net
> >
> >
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