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Technically, based on my reading, A) not all platters are made of
glass, although some are; and B) to keep it away from people like the
NSA, you'd have to shred to particles smaller than a grain of sand
because of the insane areal density of modern drives. If you've got a
1/4" square piece of platter, that could still have many KB or MB
(maybe) of data on it.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
<br>
On 8/26/2011 2:05 PM, David Hillman wrote:
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cite="mid:CA+f4BnM3F3UtNyVpuxmgmBz+PBFv4m0S7VqjYR6rTRMsh0NFyw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Why don't you just take them apart and shatter the
platters with a hammer? You can make art out of the pieces. I crushed
a bunch of drives that I had and put the chips in between two panes of
glass in a wooden stand. It serves as a conversation piece. If that
doesn't work, how about taking a blow torch to them? How much heat
would it take to melt those drives down? I am sure there is a video on
Youtube of someone melting hard drives. Good luck.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey
Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 want to<br>
bother trying to figure out what's on them.<br>
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--<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>
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