Comments on: Manual Hard Drive Destroyer

By: whoa

whoa — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:08:14 +0000

Meph has it right for the most part, just swap the “of” and “if” places, otherwise you’ll wreck your own HD hehe. Still an overall useless thing, a couple drill holes will do you just fine, by the time you bend the platters trying to drill, and then actually drill through them- there’s no way anyone’s getting anything from that drive.

By: stan

stan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:44:52 +0000

Boot and Nuke is fine for just about any data you might have. DoD standard is seven wipe, and the data is virtually unrecoverable. Use the 32 wipe if you are ultra paranoid. It is actually better than a flamethrower because disk data has been recovered from burn damage. The government and businesses that have ultra secret data use commercial shredders to destroy the disks. Wipe em, cut em into little pieces, and incinerate!

By: john

john — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:05:07 +0000

I’m an IT guy for a large company. I have a drill press in my office for this very reason. A couple holes through the platters and you won’t have any worries about people getting your data. Drilling through the platters makes more sense than the goofy looking hard drive destroyer that appears to just bend the cover?

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:41:03 +0000

You know… you COULD just ZERO the drive out completely and not spend the money. The only people who’d be able to read your HDD after dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx are those with electron tunneling microsocopes.

What a waste of money.

By: lvleph

lvleph — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:38:44 +0000

Just run this:

#!/bin/bash
$DRIVE = /dev/sda # change this to your hard drive you wanna erase
$COUNT = 0
while [ $COUNT -lt 16 ] : do
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE && dd if=/dev/urandom of=$DRIVE
COUNT = $[$COUNT+1]
done
dd count=1 bs=1024 if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE # erase the first 1megabyte to clear the MBR and partition table

By: krugle

krugle — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:04:14 +0000

cool device but a zeroing program works just as well dont you think

By: will

will — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:51 +0000

i sledge hammer works just as well at a way lower cost, but none the less its pretty cool

By: Carlo Mendoza

Carlo Mendoza — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:43:00 +0000

For some reason, I don’t believe that will do the job 100%. Pretty cool though.

By: D

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:33 +0000

overwrite a drive once with 0’s in a gnu system then find someone willing to try and get your info. Try it. It’s pretty cheap.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:14:10 +0000

Boot and Nuke.