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

[X-ray]

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:

[T3000]

Dismantled one with an 8# sledge hammer.

[Hyperspeed]

People need to be aware of the computer forensics method called
`Magnetic Hysteresis' whereby magnetism can be traced back 10's of
times so that even a formatted disk can be re-read.

Modern programs can re-write the disk 30x times to permanently avoid
this, and modern drives try to avoid it because of the risk of
cross-talk on higher density platters.

However, the only safe option which avoids some smarta$$ finding a new
forensic method is to lathe the drive into dust.

As for your method, X-ray, I would use at least a .50 hollowpoint...

:-D :-D :-D

Desert Eagle maybe...

;-)

[B00tDisk]

The most novel method I had was picking them up with a degausser (handheld bulk eraser) and listening for the muffled "clink" as the plates all slammed into each other.

[leirbag28]

Well, I don't know if this is exactly disposing, as I kept it for a while
But Basically, I turned it into a REAL LIFE Icon!  Yes! a real Icon. Your probably wondering what I mean...............well basically I painted the borders of My Windows (the windows in my bedroon) to look like Workbench windows that have been opened up with a JPEG of the outside world (outside my room). Then right next to it on the wall, I placed a few Harddrives I opened up to look like those Magic Workbench HD's and stuck them on the wall, and under each one I wrote: Workbench, Work,  
and OS2.0.............then I took a couple of Floppies that were no good, and stuck them on the wall to look like I inserted a floppy into this real life workbench on my room wall :-)

 It was pretty neat!  I was dying to find a Microchip Large enough to be the right size compared to the HD, to be the RAMdisk.  I was also considering making my ceiling fan look like a PC cooling fan..............was gonna paint it black and put borders around it :-)

eventually I had to move and couldnt finish it.

[the_leander]

Myself I can say lobbing one out of a three story window and watching it shatter, then get run over by a delivery van.

However, it is not the most extreme way of killing a hard disk that I have seen...

A friend of mine over here once showed me a video tape of an old 5and a quarter ins drive being strapped to a wooden post, then some explosives (home made) being strapped to the drive. Off it went, folding the metal casing of the drive, and penetrating it in places. Not content with this, it was again strapped with explosives, and detonated - throwing it several feet into the air, destroying the wooden post and leaving it with a gaping hole where once the spindle was.

YT2095 must have the crown for most extreme destruction of a drive. He lives on arcnet in #PBA (Powered by amiga).

10 gauge shotgun at 20 feet actually.  Probably one of the stupidest things I've ever done in my younger days, but back then like all young men, I labored under the delusion that I was "immortal" and that I would be young and responsibility-free forever.

Wayne

[Argo]

 leirbag28:

Got any pictures of the wall?

[jeffimix]

@Wayne

.... uhh, and why was it stupid? I mean, if the disk don't work it's trash....

[whabang]

I made a clock out of a platter from a 5.25 Quantum HD once. It looked really good, though, so I guess that it wasn't really stupid.

Once crushed an ol' 20 meg 2.5 HD, using a forklift and a really heavy pallet. :-D

[Ilwrath]

.... uhh, and why was it stupid? I mean, if the disk don't work it's trash....

I think the ".10 gauge from 20 feet" part is what he was considering stupid.  Some lead might ricochet back at the shooter, rather than cleanly penetrating the drive.

As for me, the only drive I had fail I disected.  Made the platters into a little decoration to warn my other equipment what would happen to them if they fail me...  Not sure where it went, now, though.  (shrug)

[Insanity]

Hard drive golf.

I trust you guys know about frisbee golf.

A couple of friends of mine, use the frisbee golf track, only they throw HDs.

really serious as well(keeping track of scores and such.


Kind of lame.  :-)

[whabang]

Insanity wrote:
Hard drive golf.

I trust you guys know about frisbee golf.

A couple of friends of mine, use the frisbee golf track, only they throw HDs.

really serious as well(keeping track of scores and such.


Kind of lame.  :-)

Loool! :lol:
I have to try that one the next time I play frisbee golf! :-D
(Now, where did I put that old 120 meg HD??? :-P)

[bloodline]

I had an old 120Meg that needed desposing... so I installed AROS on to it. Took the case apart and installed it into an old computer.

Then I turned the computer on and watched in amazement at the speed at which the heads dance across the surface of the disk platters... it's a wonder to behold!

[leirbag28]

@Argo

No, Unfortunately, I don't think I do..............but some day i will do it again. The Borders I used on the windows were copied off my Visual Prefs Workbench (At that time). I was even gonna paint my wall to look like the Workbench backdrop :-)