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SabotNoob
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Posted - 2010.04.26 16:51:00 -
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I have some old, formatted hard drives from past computers that I'd like to have shredded. The computers were sold but I always kept the drives. Has anyone used a good company in the U.S. for such purposes? I know there are some that have you mail in your drives and shred them for you and send you a video of the shredding. Any experience/feedback on any specific companies?
Thanks,
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Mr Funkadelic
x13
IT Alliance
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:07:00 -
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How about you just use a big hammer?
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Dan O'Connor
Cerberus Network
Dignitas.
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:08:00 -
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 Originally by: Mr Funkadelic
How about you just use a big hammer?
The Banhammer to be precise, for hard drives.
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Last Wolf
Rage For Order
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:18:00 -
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Just use thermite!
Oh no you don't!
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Rawr Cristina
Caldari
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:21:00 -
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Not interested in doing a software data erasure so you still have a HD at the end of it?
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SabotNoob
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:23:00 -
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Originally by: Mr Funkadelic
How about you just use a big hammer?
I've thought of all the do-it-yourself ways but I have quite a few of them. Not really feasible.
Just curious, could data be extracted off of a broken piece of the actual disk?
I've heard that shredding turns them into very small pieces, or even into dust?
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Zions Child
Caldari
Carthage Industries
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:32:00 -
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Edited by: Zions Child on 26/04/2010 17:33:08
Originally by: Last Wolf
Just use thermite!
I am soooo doing this.
Originally by: CCP Shadow
*snip* Castration successful. Shadow.
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Blane Xero
Amarr
The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:36:00 -
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Originally by: SabotNoob
Originally by: Mr Funkadelic
How about you just use a big hammer?
I've thought of all the do-it-yourself ways but I have quite a few of them. Not really feasible.
Just curious, could data be extracted off of a broken piece of the actual disk?
I've heard that shredding turns them into very small pieces, or even into dust?
Big Hammer, Lots of nails, powerful magnet.
These are the three tools you need to remove any possibility of anyone reconstructing your data from a Hard Drive.
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Originally by: CCP Fallout
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Culmen
Caldari
Macabre Votum
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:41:00 -
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May I suggest a Blendtec Total Blender
and further more why do i even need a sig? |
Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles
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Posted - 2010.04.26 17:43:00 -
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Have you considered DBAN? Note: generally involves making a PC unusable, but can do lots of drives at once.
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Digital Solaris
Caldari
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Posted - 2010.04.26 18:27:00 -
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Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Have you considered DBAN? Note: generally involves making a PC unusable, but can do lots of drives at once.
Thanks. This gives me ideas.  |
Taua Roqa
Minmatar
Sebiestor tribe
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Posted - 2010.04.26 19:41:00 -
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DBAN is great at just wiping stuff but it can do secure too, just burnt me a disk to erase my drives trying to get a clean raid setup cos the one drive shows at a 2TB array :@
so pretty :D
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illford baker
EVE RONIN
R-I-P
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Posted - 2010.04.26 19:54:00 -
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1.take the hard drive apart
2. use a sander on the gold disks
3. use a hammer on them
4. set it on fire (gas, lighter fluid, ect...)
5. bury the remains in a deep hole in your back yard
i can safely say no one will ever see whats on there.
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Kuar Z'thain
Fraser's Finest
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Posted - 2010.04.26 20:07:00 -
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Originally by: Digital Solaris
Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Have you considered DBAN? Note: generally involves making a PC unusable, but can do lots of drives at once.
Thanks. This gives me ideas.
/emote keeps an eye on his public machines.
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armas
Gallente
Seren Research
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Posted - 2010.04.26 21:29:00 -
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I take the disk platters out to use as coasters. Run a powerful magnet over them (like the ones you find in the hard drive).
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Last Wolf
Rage For Order
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Posted - 2010.04.26 22:00:00 -
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Microwave it?
Oh no you don't!
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Trader20
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Posted - 2010.04.26 23:27:00 -
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I personaly wouldnt trust someone else to delete my old info/hdds.
I would get a wiper program, which is a program that writes "1"s on every bit of every byte on every sector of every plate on your hard drive. Deleted data is recoverable because the data is still there until it is overwritten. When you delete a file it only deletes the link to the file on your HDD Index. Writing a 1 over that data removes it completely.
A 1 on an HDD is just a tiny microscopic magnet turned either | or -. So a HDD full of ones would be ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| forever.
or just get some accelerants and burn it, have a fire extinguisher close by though 
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Brisco County
Up2-NoGood
Intrepid Crossing
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Posted - 2010.04.27 07:56:00 -
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Inotech Hard-drive Disposal Team
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dr doooo
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Posted - 2010.04.27 09:52:00 -
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Edited by: dr doooo on 27/04/2010 09:57:15
It would seem to me that posting your drives to strangers is far more risky than a simple software scrubber (maybe followed by a few nails and a hammer, or maybe a bonfire if you are really paranoid, or your hiding proof of alien lizard overloads).
I seem to remember reading that it can be possible to retrieve some data even after the platters have been physically broken into pieces, or there has been a single pass of a software eraser, but that it is hugely complicated and expensive, so only relevant at 'state secrets' sorts of levels. There is an obvious solution to that anyway - 2 passes of a software eraser.
EDIT: Imagine some of the stuff the employees of these mail order companies see before they get around to shredding the discs . As soon as you 'tell' someone not to look in the box etc 
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Whitehound
The Whitehound Corporation
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Posted - 2010.04.27 09:54:00 -
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You may want to delete the disks first to go entirely sure:
http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml
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Caldari Citizen20090217
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Posted - 2010.04.27 15:07:00 -
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Use an obscenely powerful magnet, an offensively powerful overkill magnet, thermite like the poster above said, or 7-pass write 1/0s program followed by an afternoon on a clay pidgeon range using the platters.
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Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.04.27 17:41:00 -
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This company: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ was able to recover 99% of the data off one of the hard drives from the Columbia when it burned up on re-entry, so thermite might not be so final 
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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Zions Child
Caldari
Carthage Industries
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Posted - 2010.04.27 18:04:00 -
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Originally by: Barakkus
This company: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/ was able to recover 99% of the data off one of the hard drives from the Columbia when it burned up on re-entry, so thermite might not be so final
I'm being anal here, but if you look at pictures of the Hard Drive that they recovered, only the plastic and parts of the circuit board were destroyed. Thermite actually melts through the platters, which are the important parts of the disk.
Compare This: (Thermite)
To this: (Columbia Disk)
Originally by: CCP Shadow
*snip* Castration successful. Shadow.
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Veritaal
Amarr
Red Federation
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Posted - 2010.04.27 18:33:00 -
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Edited by: Veritaal on 27/04/2010 18:36:05
Destruction of a hard drive isn't hard at all. We are talking about a computer component that is so sensitive, a few lone grains of dust will ruin it.
Step 1 : Remove the platters from the casing.
Step 2 : Get a hammer. The bigger the better.
Step 3 : Pulverize the platters until you feel safe.
Step 4 : Wash the pulverized remains down the nearest storm drain.
My process is free, fun, and can be completed in less than 10 minutes. Less than 1 if you want to skip step 1 and just whack away at the HDD unit itself. There is absolutely, positively no way to retrieve data from a pile of dust and shards.
*EDIT*
Before anyone complains about step 4 being environmentally unfriendly, HDD platters are a form of ceramic. No more dangerous than throwing out a broken plate.
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Nikita Alterana
Gallente
The Inevitable Corp
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Posted - 2010.04.27 18:43:00 -
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has anyone wondered what the OP has on his hard drives?
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Praesentius
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Posted - 2010.04.27 18:45:00 -
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Edited by: Praesentius on 27/04/2010 18:45:49
My friend, Mr. Google, recommends: Shreddy Shred Shred
But I used to work for the man... we used GSA approved shred companies. I don't know how much that would cost a regular joe. |
Barakkus
Caelestis Iudicium
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Posted - 2010.04.27 18:58:00 -
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You could just go to the hardware store and get a bottle of industrial drain opener. It's mostly sulfuric acid, pour that on the platters. You just have to take some precautions not to inhale the fumes produced or get splashed :P
Originally by: CCP Dropbear
rofl
edit: ah crap, dev account. Oh well, official rofl at you sir.
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scunner funk
Minmatar
Connoisseurs Of Hallucination
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Posted - 2010.04.27 19:02:00 -
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What you need to make a hard drive unreadable is gonna depend on who's likely to try and read it.
Powerful magnets and overwriters that fill the disk with 1's are essentially the same thing and fine for most household PC's, no one will be able to read data from the disks using standard pc technology.
Forensic scanners can still read discs that have been magnetically sabotaged. The reason for this that no material deforms in a 100% elastic manner so each time the material moves from a 1 to a 0 it leaves a rim of plastic deformation that, under the right circumstances, can tell you the history of every single 1 and 0 that was ever on that disc.
Fortunately the process of forensically examining hard drives is expensive in terms of equipment and skills therefore way out of reach for any criminal without government backing. If however you are being pursued by the Italian mafia and really need to destroy the disc then you need to use heat, such as a blow torch. Only by melting or grinding to dust will you truly erase a hard drive (though it's overkill for most circumstances).
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Zions Child
Caldari
Carthage Industries
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Posted - 2010.04.27 19:06:00 -
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Originally by: Barakkus
You could just go to the hardware store and get a bottle of industrial drain opener. It's mostly sulfuric acid, pour that on the platters. You just have to take some precautions not to inhale the fumes produced or get splashed :P
I'm not saying there aren't easier ways, like many people suggested, Sledges, your suggestion of acid, a blendtec blender. But thermite is FUN!!! YAY 2000 DEGREE CELSIUS MOLTEN SLAG!
Originally by: CCP Shadow
*snip* Castration successful. Shadow.
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Veritaal
Amarr
Red Federation
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Posted - 2010.04.27 19:13:00 -
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Originally by: Nikita Alterana
has anyone wondered what the OP has on his hard drives?
I always wonder what's on some peoples' HDDs. TBH, the only thing someone MIGHT be able to get off of my computer is my credit cards and personal info.... But even then I'll just do a factory restore and do a 7 pass 1s and 0s overwrite of the whole thing and say 'good enough.' I doubt your average identity thief is going to spend thousands of dollars on bleeding-edge data recovery techniques to get my social security number, when there are thousands of people who are basically giving theirs away by comparison.
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