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Best way to destroy a buttload of floppys

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I support strong acid for the destruction of just about anything, but if you really want to do a good job of it I have a couple more creative idea:
1. Thermite (4500 degrees Fahrenheit)
2. Drink alot of 2 liter soda bottles, a few days of electrolysis, fill the bottles, duck tape disks to bottle, launch bottles
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: M16Grenadier
Hell, 300 floppys! Thats a lifetime supply for yourself! Erase and reuse them!

Also a good idea. My dad brought home a box of floppies from where he worked - old stuff just out for the trash. I installed a second floppy drive into my PC and wrote a little batch file to format one after another. Breezed through them fairly quickly.
And, if they fail one by one, format it again if you can, and just stump the floppy under your shoe and toss it.

cept floppies have been obsolete forever now. 10 bucks gets u a 128mb+ flash keychain dongle after all. its not worth the effort to use a damned floppy
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Just transferred about 300-400 floppys to a CD today... Sensitive client data on all of them....

Best way to dispose of them all?

The Fires of Mordor, best way to be sure... watch out for the ring Wraiths.

 
Originally posted by: niggles
Originally posted by: aphex
Just transferred about 300-400 floppys to a CD today... Sensitive client data on all of them....

Best way to dispose of them all?

The Fires of Mordor, best way to be sure... watch out for the ring Wraiths.
lol
Is the ONE floppy a part of that buttload? If so wear sturdy gloves lest you lose the hand to this really ugly goblin creature with an affinity for lurkage.
 
Big Giant Electro Magnet. Think Crane at scrap yard.
Our shredder at work eats them.

There was a young female computer student and she could not figure why her floppies kept becoming corrupted so she asked her insturctor. Her instructor then asked here what she did to save her work. She says well I did the homework and saved it to a floppy. The instructor then asked her what did you do with the floppy. She says Well, I did not want to lose or forget the floppy, so I put it on the front of the refrigerator with a magnet.

There is a program called killdisk but it may take longer than just incinerating them.

http://www.killdisk.com/features.htm

The commercial version is DOD approved. It just rewrites random characters one bit at a time.

There is something about setting plastic on fire and smelling the toxic fumes.

Time for a weenie roast.

Put them in granpa's pocket when he is creamated.

 
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