[ale] Sanitizing dead hard drive

[James P. Kinney III]

When I had the access in grad school a 4 Tesla pair of electromagnets
worked quite well for making every bit turn 0. 

Or 1.

I toasted a drive, ran it between the magnets (i.e. put on one face and
turned them on to avoid having my hand crushed trying to place them into
the field center live) then opened the top and pulled the platters out.
The surface could easily support a healthy layer of paperclips suspended
upside down.

The powers that be (wisely) would not let me play with the 6T setup down
the hall. :(

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:07 -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> What do you folks do when a hard drive "dies" (i.e. you cannot get it work in 
> your PC) and you wish to dispose of it?  I'm not worried about they physical 
> disposal (I'll save it for electronic recycling) if I can be confident that 
> the data on won't be readable by someone with advanced tools.  So the 
> question is, how do you make sure that the data cannot be read.
> 
> Thanks
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