[ale] OT: Erasing a toasted drive

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:19 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > When I was doing my grad school work, we had numerous problems with high
> > magnetic fields and hard drives. Granted, we were working with some big
> > stuff (1-4 T) but we still had issues even 20 feet away where the field
> > strength was down to about that of a bulk tape erasure (.01T). We would
> > regularly have hard drive failures and damaged sectors even though the
> > drives were in some really heavy steel cases. Monitors fared even worse.
> .
> .
> .
> > You can always hang the drive by the nearest 100kW radio station antenna
> > and let the signal from that slowly heat the drive to death. You can
> > also pull off the electronics and bake the thing at 400F. You can inject
> > some corrosive salt solutions or an organic acid into the air vent
> > opening.
> > 
> > My favorite is to blast it with radiation from a nuclear reactor. About
> > 20us from a 200MW nuclear reactor near the surface of the rods will do
> > it as well. I don't want the drive back after that, though :)
> 
> I'll bet you were a lot of fun at school...  There's bound to be at 
> least one person in this world walking around with aluminum foil on 
> their head because of you.

I'm my own worst nightmare. I even have kids. My son (age 7) is so much
like me I'm putting money aside for lawsuit funds for the DMCA.
> 
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