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Best way to destroy a harddrive's data in about 30 seconds?

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Originally posted by: skyking
30 seconds? You could empty a 9MM magazine into it, I doubt they'd have a fun time with 15 holes through it.
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If feds are coming in your door and you're blasting off 9MM rounds, the data on the hard drive is probably the least of your worries.
 
Well not so much the data but if you want to screw it big time so its not "plug and play" force the power connector in upside down with the machine turned on.

I seen someone do that once with a drive and it had a nice burnt smell to it after that and it was toast.....
 
Originally posted by: moparacer
Well not so much the data but if you want to screw it big time so its not "plug and play" force the power connector in upside down with the machine turned on.

I seen someone do that once with a drive and it had a nice burnt smell to it after that and it was toast.....
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They'd just take the platters out in a clean room and put it into another drive. Wala, data recovery is in progress.
 
You could build a small incinerator, large enough to house the case, and leave a door on the back open for cooling. Then have a remote on you at all times that would automatically shut the door and burn the unit to ashes.
 
Originally posted by: schneiderguy
Another question: if the FBI walks in and sees a hard drive destroyed by thermite/drill bit/etc is that considered evidence that you did have something bad on there?

again purely hypothetical 😉
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Conjecture. Inadmissible.
 
Originally posted by: Farang
Originally posted by: skyking
30 seconds? You could empty a 9MM magazine into it, I doubt they'd have a fun time with 15 holes through it.
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If feds are coming in your door and you're blasting off 9MM rounds, the data on the hard drive is probably the least of your worries.
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I LOL'D
 
What if you where to do a quick format with some type of linux file system? Assuming is was originally ntfs or fat32.

Or you could just smite it!
 
it will spark up and burn in the microwave. The whole HD will be melted within a minute.
 
Keep your data stored on a portable drive or something similar in nature using flash (solid state) memory. It doesn't take much to smash a small flash drive to a million pieces. Good luck recovering that.
 
This makes me remember a scene from the The Core, when that hacker guy used his microwaves to nuke his CD's, toastered his floppies, used magnets and wiped all his hard drives, and all this other fancy stuff.
 
Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
can you disassemble a hard drive in under 30 seconds, just to get to the platters in the first place?
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it would take me longer than 30 seconds to even get the case open
 
Build a Hardon Collider inside the Case. Fire it up when needed, asked to be carted off immediately as you don't want to get sucked in, hope the Blackhole collapses.
 
Don't know about 30 seconds, but this might do it.

Keep the HDD externally in one of those fireproof safes. Throw an oxygen tank in there and whatever else is needed for the quickest and most efficient way to make the inside of that safe really, really hot. Maybe attach a small explosive to the drive to crack it open and so that the platters burn more quickly. Keep the safe hidden somewhere. By the time it is found, hope everything is melted and irrecoverable.

Or just throw the drive into your neighbor's yard.
 
Originally posted by: ed21x
it will spark up and burn in the microwave. The whole HD will be melted within a minute.
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Why do you think that? From my knowledge of how a microwave works I can't imagine that would happen. Microwaves need dipolar molecules (like water) to produce heat. I've destroyed a few things in microwaves but I don't think a HDD would be destroyed.
 
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