[TriLUG] destroying disk drives

[Josh Vickery]

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

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
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