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Aside from the entertainment factor, I fail to understand why people
insist on destroying the HDD assembly.<br>
It's fairly simple to remove the platters, and they can be dealt with
much more effectively outside the enclosure.<br>
Personally, I would use a degausser (because my shop has one) but a
regular home bench grinder should do the trick also.<br>
Or, if you like to recycle, the platters are pure aluminum last I knew.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.instructables.com/id/EC1S0WGQ8FEQHO8ZNQ/?ALLSTEPS">http://www.instructables.com/id/EC1S0WGQ8FEQHO8ZNQ/?ALLSTEPS</a><br>
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<pre wrap="">As I recall, roasting the disk will weaken the strength of the
magnetic fields, necessitating more sensitive equipment. I'd like to
see someone who read data off of warped and discontinuous platters,
like the ones my friends and I generated on Labor Day:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_005.jpg">http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_005.jpg</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_004.jpg">http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_004.jpg</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_003.jpg">http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_003.jpg</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_002.jpg">http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_002.jpg</a>
Best shot of the day: (Though it may not have warped the platters as intended)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_001.jpg">http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_001.jpg</a>
On 9/14/06, Tim Schmidt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com"><timschmidt@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hey... remember that fun discussion we had not too long ago about
what is and isn't possible to recover from a hard drive? Well I ran
across the company who's software we used... OnTrack
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ontrack.com">http://www.ontrack.com</a>). They'll also accept drives shipped to them
with absolutely horrid damage. An example?
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1911131,00.asp">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1911131,00.asp</a>
It's pretty incredible stuff. Encrypting everything looks more and
more attractive.
--tim
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