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Destruction of old harddrives Anonymous 19/08/20(Tue)22:32 No. 22687 ID: a625df

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How would I go about making everything on my old hard drive (western digital 1tb) completely gone and irreversible? I've heard using something like the program dban then completely disassembling the drive

Anonymous 19/08/20(Tue)22:34 No. 22688 ID: 4e4c3b

smash it into thousands of pieces, then burn it, then dump it into several different trash cans.

Anonymous 19/08/20(Tue)22:43 No. 22689 ID: 602775

>>22688
this; Microwave it also.

Anonymous 19/08/21(Wed)00:44 No. 22690 ID: 8c37c8

1. Mount platter to lathe.
2. Pass strong magnet over its surface
3. While spinning, remove surface material 4. Flip over and repeat
5. Remove from lathe
6. Scratch with screwdriver a few times

Anonymous 19/08/21(Wed)01:30 No. 22692 ID: 899cdc

Volcano.

Several random passes with DBAN should do the trick. Unless you're involved in some high-profile activities it's not practical to recover data at that level.

If you are involve in something high-profile, pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds after the afore mentioned wipe.

The most important thing is prevention of recovery. If it can't be recovered they can't recover from it. The afore mentioned volcano is a my choice but smashing the platters and distributing the fragments is the next best thing. Alternatively do a fresh install and give away the PC at a car boot in the next county or drive to somewhere with a high crime rate and 'accidentally' leave it unattended a little too long.

Anonymous 19/08/21(Wed)21:10 No. 22693 ID: a625df

Thanks for the help guys. Appreciate it :)

Anonymous 19/08/22(Thu)03:58 No. 22695 ID: a115ac

I usually just disassemble drives down to their component bits then toss individual platters into different dumpsters I stop at on my way to or from work. However I don't have anything worth recovering on the drives.

With multiplatter drives once you snap the spindle loose recovery is very difficult, typically it requires tools that were only available in the factory at the time that particular model was in production to put the platters back into alignment.

If its a single platter drive you could always drill a bunch of holes into the platter. Can't recover data from dust.

A zero wipe of the entire drive is generally sufficient from everyone outside of TLAs. TLAs are going to try and reconstruct your anime collection by reading from the periphery of the tracks where the write head doesn't normally reach. It tends to result in a very fragmented incomplete recovery. Perpendicular recording has made a lot of the older methods obsolete, like electron microscopy.

Combine zero wipe and drilling and disassembly and sprinkling parts across a city's dumpsters and you've made some TLA drones very sad and grumpy.

Anonymous 19/12/05(Thu)09:37 No. 22729 ID: 643a0e

>>22687
dband and drill
and burn it if possible

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