[ale] erasing a hard drive

[Rich Faulkner]

How much heat?  

Thermite!

Why does this remind me of the "How many licks does it take to get the
to the center of a Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pop" commercial?




On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:05 -0400, David Hillman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>         I've drawn a blank.  What is the name of that free software
>         that I can
>         use to erase a hard drive?  It will run multiple overwrites?
>         
>         I've got a number of old drives I need to dispose of and I
>         don't want to
>         bother trying to figure out what's on them.
>         
>         --
>         Until later, Geoffrey
>         
>         "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
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>         the pretense of taking care of them."
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