How do you get rid of old hard drives?Do you take a hammer or drill to it before dumping it?
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load em up in an old microwave, or swipe a strong magnet over em
>>103236970I just write zeros it's good enough
>>103236970Overwriting it with valid data in all probability still the most practical. Could be as simple as copy and pasting a few dozen Y4M files which is a valid thing people editing videos do all the time anyway. Pretty much no real indication it was "wiped". If you think the firmware was bugged or something then you're gonna have to open that bad boy up and go to town with a hammer to it.This is probably the biggest reason why sysadmins tend to use flash drives. Anything they want decommissioned beyond all reason gets a nice overvolt after being nuked with 0s.
dban + smash it with a hammerretarded firmware creators dont include a proper way to actually wipe drives with 100% certainty, because they want it all closed source for law enforcement and to spy on youso much for caring for the environment. could literally prevent so much e waste and pollution if you actually just let people wipe their drives properly
>>103236970Hydraulic press + CLR.
>>103236970why get rid of them? If they are working they should be in use. If not, recycle them.
>>103237069there is nothing more practical than a hammer
>>103236970Relax holy shit, you are not so important to monitor your dumpster, dumping the LUKS header (you ARE encrypting your shit, right?) and wasting millions of GPU-hours trying to bruteforce it
>>103237598>doesn't know the thrill of being on an active LEA watchlist I feel bad for you.
>>103237634>ohhh yes, look at me I'm SO EDGYNobody cares you collect anime lolis and bestiality shit. If you actually were a person at risk, you'd shut the fuck up YOU NIGGER
>>103236970I rewrite the movie Shrek over and over to the disk until it physically fails.
>>103237675>neither cares about cyber-security OR knows what a joke isI no longer feel bad for you. You're the wrong kind of autistic.
>>103236970I usually piss all over mine
>>103236970>load it full of FATE rule 34 (loli characters only)>drop it off at local free library>wait for local news article about it
>>103236970step 1) open itstep 2) re-connect it and watch it spin and move the arm at crazy speeds (just for fun)step 3) OK fun's over - disconnect and smash platters with hammer.
>>103237039Close. ATA_SECURE_ERASE. Zero fill doesn't touch sectors that have been remapped before.
>>103236970They are all encrypted, so I just bang them on the edge of one of my dumbbells a few times.
>>103236970If it still works, I stick them in a box in my basement. Free backup of whatever was on them.If not, wipe if possible, nick the magnets/platters if I feel like it, and dump what's left in my work's electronics recycling bin.If it had anything really sensitive on it and wiping wasn't possible, I'd bang up the platters with a hammer, but haven't needed to yet.
>>103239496step 4) salvage the neat magnet
>>103237039What if it's broken?
>>103239467kek that was too specific anon
>>103236970Wipe it by writting zeros to it and then try to destroy it as much as you can, the important part is that the disks get completely obliterated.
I threw the silicon disks i took out of a drive into an industrial shredder (that I was assembling in my garage so no cameras mind you) because I thought silicon was softer than ordinary tool steel the jaws were made ofLuckily it didn't leave any serious marks I wasn't able to fix with sandpaper, the thing was meant to shred pet slats anyway so this wouldn't be an issue I couldn't blame on the chink, european engineering at it's finestmost retarded story yet to result from my job, it's been pretty tame for nowAt least it pulverized it real good lmao
purelev.com works pretty well
>>103240356The discs are made of aluminum
>>103236970DoD wipe
>>103240698> $400 to do what I could've done with a hammerNo thanks.
>>103236970Tear it apart, destroy the platters, but keep the cool neodymium magnets. Then I just toss out the scraps into the ocean :))
take the platters out and hang them on strings.
>>103236970Put them in a box in a crawl space and forget they exist.
>>103237718Hey man you're an all-star
Just throw it in the trash. You're delusional if you think the FBI is going to send one of its agents to the garbage dump to recover your 4TB smug anime girl folder.
>>103242805That's sounds like something a fed would say
>>103242782you are now manually breathing. Also, check my name
>>103236970Why bother, just pile them up in the back of a cupboard.
>>103236970Drill and ewaste
>>103236970Why would I want get get rid of an old HDD? I use them till they break.
Just throw them into the ocean. No one's gonna fish them out
>>103236970Power it up and drop it. Your average person isn't going to pay a lot of money to recover the data or have the skills to repair one. You don't need to grind them into a fine powder and serve them to you employees in the cafeteria like a big business/government office.
Take it apart they have super strong magnets inside.
>>103236970Hammer/unscrew/smash or destroy the disk
>>103236970i just nuke the luks headerI do like to zero them, makes data recovery hobbyists not waste their time
>>103236970give them to me. I'll take good care of them
>she has unencrypted drives>she throws away working drives
>>103236970>LUKS encryptiondidn't know I needed to perform a ritual to toss it
