What is the most novel way you've disposed of a hard-drive?

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Back in 1998 I had an old SCSI 500mb drive that I was using for all my jpegs and sound files. It gave me alot of trouble in its dying days and after I had several pics corrupted, I had to put it out of its misery.
I can vouch that a Black Talon 9mm round does indeed get through the case, both platters and the control chips on the back, unles it hits the central drive spindle in which case the second platter is only dented  :lol:

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@ Doobrey

Okay. You win. That is a fate worse than any kind of gunshot, steam-roller or chainsaw.

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@ iamaboringperson:

It is quite diffficult to hit a hard drive at 20 feet with a shotgun AND DAMAGE IT MASSIVELY. That is because you need at least SSG or LG shot to do the job. That means larger pellets, but fewer in number. Simple mathematics dictates that the fewer the number of projectiles in the blast, and the greater the distance, the less likelihood there is of multiple hits on a target the size of a hard-drive.

Now on the other hand, if Wayne had a ten gauge slug loaded in an Ithaca Roadblocker, and he was quite accurate, that would definitely cause bad blocks on the drive!
I did some tests with some 12 gauge slugs and found them to be accurate to at least 40 metres (in terms of hitting a target the size of a dinner plate) so I reckon at 30 metres you could hit a hard-drive with a slug. But 10 gauge, that's heavy stuff, man. It's a brute.
(the lower the gauge, the bigger the cartridge)
I think the most gentlemanly way (and most promising) would be to load three cartridges in the magazine of an FAL assault rifle, put it on full auto and squeeze the trigger as if you are firing one shot.
Voila!! Pieces of hard-drive casing and platters spinning into the air from 80 metres away...