Proper Hard Drive Destruction?

[Guest]

So after dbaning my hard drive for data, I had a few errors and it was unable to erase everything off the drive. There's a small chance of some important information still being stored on there that personally I don't want to take, so what's a proper physical way to make sure that the drive is irrecoverable? 

[Kyuubixchidori]

So after dbaning my hard drive for data, I had a few errors and it was unable to erase everything off the drive. There's a small chance of some important information still being stored on there that personally I don't want to take, so what's a proper physical way to make sure that the drive is irrecoverable? 

hammer

 

edit: are you trying to sell it or just get rid of it? could always short it out

[ShadowCaptain]

So after dbaning my hard drive for data, I had a few errors and it was unable to erase everything off the drive. There's a small chance of some important information still being stored on there that personally I don't want to take, so what's a proper physical way to make sure that the drive is irrecoverable? 

 

Open the drive, take it apart, take out the platters, run magnets over them, scratch them, burn them, and then finally smash them (also microwaving them would kill them.. but would blow up your microwave.. fun though(

[TechNugget]

Drill through it and/or smash the platters 

[ozziestig]

so what's a proper physical way to make sure that the drive is irrecoverable? 

Taking a blowtorch to it.

[Wauthar]

[Guest]

I love how brutal all of you guys are this should work thanks haha

[DigitalHermit]

HDD platter frisbee game...

 

shuriken practice...

[Notree]

Buy gas. Poor gas on HDD.Light. Voila... lol 

[Guest]

Rip it apart (i didn't have a torx screwdriver handy...) scratch the platters, smash them, burn them; just abuse them till they're physically unrepairable. 

[ZetZet]

OP is probably a drug dealer.

[CommandMan7]

Find the wires that run the motor and overvolt it until it shatters at high speed. Or throw it it a tumble dryer for a few hours.

[Emanuel_M]

So after dbaning my hard drive for data, I had a few errors and it was unable to erase everything off the drive. There's a small chance of some important information still being stored on there that personally I don't want to take, so what's a proper physical way to make sure that the drive is irrecoverable? 

salt and water in bucket. drill hole on top of HDD then let the hdd in the bucket

[Lotus]

Very strong magnets do it very easily.

 

Barring that, physically destroying the platters is sufficient.

[ozziestig]

Open the drive, take it apart, take out the platters, run magnets over them, scratch them, burn them, and then finally smash them (also microwaving them would kill them.. but would blow up your microwave.. fun though(

Have you done that before, I mean blown up a microwave.

[ShadowCaptain]

Have you done that before, I mean blown up a microwave.

 

yes

[ozziestig]

I love how brutal all of you guys are this should work thanks haha

We have all done something similar to our drives before.

[lx_srs]

Open the drive, take it apart, take out the platters, run magnets over them, scratch them, burn them, and then finally smash them (also microwaving them would kill them.. but would blow up your microwave.. fun though(

Or before he does that, he could do this for fun:

[Emanuel_M]

i always open the hard drive to get the magnets

[Wauthar]

Or before he does that, he could do this for fun:

That's awesome!

If you're done with it, you can do it all over again