[TriLUG] destroying disk drives

Mike Norwood norwoodm at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 9 17:43:57 EST 2005



On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Josh Vickery wrote:

> I believe Thermite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite) is fairly
> easy to manufactor, and would certainly destroy the drives.

Also remember if the hard drives are from an Apple or have Pine installed 
on them you may be able to use termite to destroy them. 

> 
> Another (less spectacular) option would be to take the drives apart
> and grind the surface off the platters with a bench grinder.
> 
> Josh
> 
> On 11/9/05, Mike Parkhurst <Mike.Parkhurst at samsys.com> wrote:
> > I like to wipe the disk with DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) and then
> > physically destroy the drive with side cutters, hammer, drill, etc as much
> > as time permits.  At home, fire is my friend, and they usually melt.
> >
> > DBAN, auto-clave, etc don't touch remapped sectors, which is why physical
> > destruction is important.  Is anyone aware of any tools that wipe remapped
> > sectors?  How about any tools that can read from these sectors (often the
> > whole sector is not bad)?
> >
> > Lastly, if the disks are not bad and the situation allows, consider the
> > earlier suggestion to wipe and donate.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> > Of Blackburn, Marvin
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:54 PM
> > To: trilug at trilug.org
> > Subject: [TriLUG] destroying disk drives
> >
> > We have some disk drives (hp hot swappable) that need to be destroyed.
> > Is anyone aware a company in the Raleigh/Durham Burlington Area that
> > will do this.  Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > ------------------
> > Marvin Blackburn
> > Systems Administrator
> > Glen Raven
> > "He's no failure.  He's not dead yet" --William Lloyd George
> >
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