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How to Erase a Dead Hard Drive

It’s data security. Digital Sandbox style. Hey, we couldn’t get the hard drive to load, but we wanted to make sure that the user’s personal data was gone. This is what happens when engineers put their heads together. And have access to fire.

Warranty void if seal broken Cutting her open Torching the drive The final result . . . pretty

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“Other methods, including burning disks with heat-generating thermite, crushing drives in presses, chemically destroying the media or frying them with microwaves all proved susceptible to sensitive, patient, recovery efforts.”
(http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=97378)

Yeah so apparently if you could still get some data out. I think you should fire that HD into the sun!

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