[GRLUG] Data wiping / recovery / paranoia

[Bill Littlejohn]

Aside from the entertainment factor, I fail to understand why people 
insist on destroying the HDD assembly.
It's fairly simple to remove the platters, and they can be dealt with 
much more effectively outside the enclosure.
Personally, I would use a degausser (because my shop has one) but a 
regular home bench grinder should do the trick also.
Or, if you like to recycle, the platters are pure aluminum last I knew.
http://www.instructables.com/id/EC1S0WGQ8FEQHO8ZNQ/?ALLSTEPS

BL


Michael Mol wrote:
> 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:
>
>
> http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_005.jpg
> http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_004.jpg
> http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_003.jpg
> http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_002.jpg
>
> Best shot of the day: (Though it may not have warped the platters as intended)
> http://theforge.us/sc/laborday2006/Photo_090406_001.jpg
>
> On 9/14/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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
>> (http://www.ontrack.com).  They'll also accept drives shipped to them
>> with absolutely horrid damage.  An example?
>>
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1911131,00.asp
>>
>> It's pretty incredible stuff.  Encrypting everything looks more and
>> more attractive.
>>
>> --tim
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