[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Ron Frazier]

Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of glass, 
although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA, 
you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand because of 
the insane areal density of modern drives.  If you've got a 1/4" square 
piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of data on it.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:
> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a 
> hammer?  You can make art out of the pieces.  I crushed a bunch of 
> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a 
> wooden stand.  It serves as a conversation piece.  If that doesn't 
> work, how about taking a blow torch to them?   How much heat would it 
> take to melt those drives down?  I am sure there is a video on Youtube 
> of someone melting hard drives.  Good luck.
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've drawn a blank.  What is the name of that free software that I can
>     use to erase a hard drive?  It will run multiple overwrites?
>
>     I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't
>     want to
>     bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>
>     --
>     Until later, Geoffrey
>
>     "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>     the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>     the pretense of taking care of them."
>     - Thomas Jefferson
>

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