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Cautionary note

posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 10:33pm on 10/04/2011 under
Shattered platter
This, ladies, gents and other gentlebeings, is a good demonstration of why, if you must apply brute force and ignorance to a discarded hard drive to ensure your data is unreadable, WEAR EYE PROTECTION. (Before you ask, yes I was.)

This is (was) a laptop hard drive of 2004 vintage; the platters turned out to be extremely fragile, much more so than the desktop drives I've previously mangled. This is what happened when I applied not very much force to try and prise it off the spindle; the second one let go almost explosively when I gripped it firmly in a pair of pliers.

Oh well; job done, at least! Now, excuse me while I go sweep up the fragments...
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pseudomonas: "pseudomonas" in London Underground roundel (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] pseudomonas at 10:08pm on 10/04/2011
Next time put the whole lot in a heavy sack and apply a hammer?
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crazyscot: Selfie, with C, in front of an alpine lake (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] crazyscot at 10:38pm on 10/04/2011
I always take the platters out first so as to be able to apply maximal brute force to them. I hadn't even got that far this time...
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pseudomonas: "pseudomonas" in London Underground roundel (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] pseudomonas at 11:12pm on 10/04/2011
With a big enough hammer, I'm sure you could arrange for things to work.
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tigerfort: the Stripey Captain, with a bat friend perched on her head keeping her ears warm (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] tigerfort at 07:38am on 11/04/2011
Wow; I've never seen one do that before. I wonder what the platters for laptop drives are made from (other than, apparently, not the same stuff used in desktop ones).
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