<p>Heat any magnet above the curie temp and it's no longer a magnet. This also works perfectly well for all hard drives. No three letter org can bypass the laws of physics.<br>
The shredding routine come from rule for paper docs as the rule writers don't understand computers.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 26, 2011 10:29 PM, "Ron Frazier" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com">atllinuxenthinfo@c3energy.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of glass, <br>
> although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the NSA, <br>> you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand because of <br>> the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a 1/4" square <br>
> piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB (maybe) of data on it.<br>> <br>> Sincerely,<br>> <br>> Ron<br>> <br>> On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:<br>>> Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the platters with a <br>
>> hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed a bunch of <br>>> drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of glass in a <br>>> wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that doesn't <br>
>> work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat would it <br>>> take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on Youtube <br>>> of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.<br>
>><br>>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers <br>>> <<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>>> I've drawn a blank. What is the name of that free software that I can<br>>> use to erase a hard drive? It will run multiple overwrites?<br>>><br>>> I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I don't<br>
>> want to<br>>> bother trying to figure out what's on them.<br>>><br>>> --<br>>> Until later, Geoffrey<br>>><br>>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<br>
>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under<br>>> the pretense of taking care of them."<br>>> - Thomas Jefferson<br>>><br>> <br>> -- <br>> <br>> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to<br>
> call on the phone. I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy<br>> mailing lists and such. I don't always see new messages very quickly.)<br>> <br>> Ron Frazier<br>> <br>> 770-205-9422 (O) Leave a message.<br>
> linuxdude AT <a href="http://c3energy.com">c3energy.com</a><br>> <br></div>