[TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

[Shane O'Donnell]

Ah yes.  It was a brilliant moment in geek TV history, back when The
ScreenSavers didn't suck.

I'm curious -- for whomever started this thread:  has the HD died yet?

Shane O. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of skippy1 at hickorytech.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 11:48 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] HD failure eminent?

> 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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