The Fun You Can Have Wiping Old Hard Drives
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I used to tear apart bad hard drives to see how the different models were made. I learned the spacers between the discs would often ring like tiny bells when struck or bounced. I had a small mobile made from some spacers and a few discs hanging in my office for a while.
Just geek things.
Jun 24, 2022
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Gomer_Pyle wrote:
I used to tear apart bad hard drives to see how the different models were made. I learned the spacers between the discs would often ring like tiny bells when struck or bounced. I had a small mobile made from some spacers and a few discs hanging in my office for a while.
Just geek things.
I've never had to open any hard drives before, although I have a couple that are ready for the scrap heap. (Numerous bad sectors that couldn't be recovered, and condition getting worse.) For those two, I'll do a secure wipe, leave them unopened, then take a hammer to them and beat them to a pulp. (Should be fun!)
The fun you can have wiping old hard drives...
For info, the internal ATA Secure Erase program is much faster than the external wiping programs such as dd, DBAN, or NWipe. I'm sure you can find the ATA Secure Erase program separately, but if you have access to Parted Magic, it's included in that.
(Yeah, I know, this topic is *really* Off Off Topic, but I'm *really* bored...)