Article: What does it take to destroy a Hard Disk?

PC Pro: Analysis: Features: What does it take to destroy a hard disk?

It's an interesting read, shame the BBC took destroying their drive a little too far

 

Considering im currently planning to find a furnace for me to turn any hard drives that i am asked to destroy into molten slag, i might give them a call if i accidentally destroy the wrong drive

 

BFH, always works for me[ot]Big :swear:ing Hammer[/ot]

 

I would be interested to know if they could recover anything after a 45 rounds of DBan

 

I'm arriving a bit late here and you'll have the excuse the possibly stupid suggestion i'm about to make but wouldn't a big electromagnet scramble the data?

 

in theory, yes, although personally i'd prefer to see the physical platters of the HDD destroyed, then i would know the data was beyond retrieval

Edit: & a few hard hits with the hammer to the platters

 

haha that was a good read. Personally I prefer the traditional method of a big hammer

 

Well, i guess i can see the stress busting benefits of the hammer aproach but there's nothing like power tools when you really wanna do some damage

 

true, to do real damage an angle grinder or a sthill saw would definatly be your best friends

 

I can't believe i got the same problem as stated in the harddrive above, toshiba 60 gb making a wierd grinding noise ='(
my brother is gonna kill me its not even mine....